消费主义与失家困局:《圣洁百合》中的伦理问题

Consumerism and Predicament of Homelessness:Problem of Ethics in In the Beauty of the Lilies

文章运用消费主义理论,分析《圣洁百合》中的四代人如何受到消费主义不断深入的影响。消费主义在资本主义精神中有源可溯,又随着工业化和资本主义发展势头渐猛。但它在满足市场需求的同时也侵蚀道德,产生了将个体物化的倾向,导致人们情感淡漠、轻视伦理,传统的家庭关系面临破裂,又无从寻找新的精神家园。个体作出了迎合或抵制消费主义的不同选择,但都不可避免地沦为不同意义上的受害者,陷入现代背景下的失家困局。

This article adopts the theory of consumerism to analyse how the the influence of consumerism is continuously deepened through the four generations in In the Beauty of the Lilies.Consumerism has its origin in the spirit of Capitalism,and grows rapidly with the development of industrialization and capitalism.However,apart from its advantage of meeting the demands of the market,it erodes people’s morality with the tendency of perceiving people as objects,triggering people’s indifference to emotions and ethics.The traditional family relationship is about to break up,and people fail to find a new spiritual shelter.Additionally,despite the fact that different individuals make their own choices,catering to or resisting capitalism respectively,they inevitably fall victim to consumerism and the predicament of homelessness in a modern society.