《最后死亡的是心脏》中乌托邦社会解读

Interpretation of Utopian Society in The Heart Goes Last

阿特伍德在《最后死亡的是心脏》中描述了一个犯罪横行、经济衰败的未来社会。以福柯在《规训与惩罚》中提出“全景化”和规训理论,探究阿特伍德乌托邦化的正电子社区,该社区是以监控以及规训为基础的社会模型,因为市民时刻感受到自己被观察,就会时刻遵守规则,达到统治者期待的监禁目的。在正电子社区是建立监禁和规训的原则基础之上,而非公平正义,其并非是真正意义的乌托邦社会,人类在寻找解决危机方案方面仍然任重道远。

In novel The Heart Goes Last,Atwood describes a future society with rampant crime and declining economy.This essay explores the utopian-like positron community by using the“panorama”and the discipline theory proposed by Foucault in Discipline and Punish.This community is a social model based on monitoring and discipline,because citizens always feel that they are being observed and calculated,and they will always abide by the rules to achieve the purpose of imprisonment expected by the rulers.By defi ning that the positron community is based on imprisonment and discipline,rather than fairness and justice,the essay tries to point out that the community is not a real utopian society.Human beings still have a long way to go in fi nding solutions to the crisis.