《卡斯特桥市长》:一个分裂的文本

The Mayor of Casterbridge:A Split Text

托马斯.哈代的《卡斯特桥市长》一直被认做是哈代的一部经典的悲剧小说,它属于哈代的"性格与环境"小说系列。在《卡斯特桥市长》这部小说里,自然环境有着极为重要的作用。它不仅建立了小说的基调,预示着主人公的命运而且是"宇宙意志"的具体化。但是,在《卡斯特桥市长》这部作品中,景物意象的描述存在着语言的不稳定性和自相矛盾以及作者的悲剧观与人物性格的相互抵触的现象。与此同时,文本中还存在着的另一种"声音"。这些都造成了该文本的分裂倾向。

Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge is regarded as a classical tragic novel;it belongs to Hardy's'character and setting'novels.In The Mayor of Casterbridge,natural environment has a very important role.It not only creates the novel's atmosphere,foreshadows the character's destiny but also crystallizes Hardy's'immanent will'.But in this novel,there is'uncertainty'and contradiction in the description of the natural environment and the author's tragic consciousness clashes with the character's personality.Also,there is another 'voice'in the text.All of these cause a split text.