进步与妥协:论“小妇人”三部曲中奥尔科特的伦理道德观

Progress and Compromise:A Study of Alcott’s Ethics and Morality in Her“Little Women”Trilogy

路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的伦理道德观在其代表作《小妇人》三部曲中有着集中体现。作为读者眼中的“道德传教者”,奥尔科特的伦理道德观契合了19世纪美国的社会文化语境,显示出她对女性传统身份和家庭角色的关切和肯定。作为进步女权思想的宣传者,身处第一次女权运动浪潮中的她在作品中表达了争取参政权等女性平等权益的诉求。然而,奥尔科特在表达女性伦理道德进步性观念的同时,其妥协性也得以暴露。奥尔科特的“妥协”可视为她在特定社会条件下表达自己进步主张的一种可行策略。奥尔科特的伦理道德观不仅影响了当时的进步运动,而且对后世产生了积极深远的影响。

Louisa May Alcott’s ethics and morality are fully exemplified in her masterpiece“Little Women”trilogy.As a“moral preacher”in the eyes of readers,Alcott’s views fit the social cultural context of the United States in the 19th century,showing her concerns and affirmations of women’s traditional identities and domestic roles.As an advocate for progressive feminist thoughts,she,in the first wave of the feminist movement,expresses her demands for equal rights for women including suffrage in her works.However,while Alcott conveys the progressive concepts of women’s ethics and morality,her compromise is also exposed.Alcott’s“compromise”can be seen as a feasible strategy to express her own progressive claims under certain social conditions.Alcott’s ethics and morality not only influence the progressive movement at that time,but also leave positive and far-reaching impacts on the later generations.