安东尼·伯吉斯小说《发条橙》的时代隐喻分析

An Analysis of the Metaphors of the Times in Anthony Burgess’s Novel A Clockwork Orange

英国作家安东尼·伯吉斯在小说《发条橙》中虚构了乌托邦式的妄想利用科学技术消除主人公阿历克斯人性之恶的权力社会,探讨善与恶、自由与平等、公共权力与个人、人文社会与科学技术、理性与感性、秩序与混乱等议题,以此影射现实社会。《发条橙》中互相对立的元素构成时代隐喻,在现代社会中以对立且统一的矛盾形式存在于人们的生活中,这些未解之题使这部小说充满了哲思的魅力。

In the novel A Clockwork Orange,British author Anthony Burgess fictionalizes a utopian delusion of using science and technology to eliminate the evil of the protagonist Alex’s human nature in a power society,exploring topics such as good and evil,freedom and equality,public power and the individual,humanistic society and science and technology,rationality and sensibility,order and chaos,in order to allude to the real society.The contrasting elements in A Clockwork Orange constitute metaphors of the times,which exist in people’s lives in a contradictory and unified form in modern society.These unsolved questions make this novel full of philosophical charm.