摘要
现代人过度注重物质生活,精神生活在浓厚的物质欲望中逐渐迷失。奴役作为人类生存状态的隐喻,意味着主体的缺失,除了奴隶制本身,奴役可以发生在任何层面,该文对小说《仁慈》中的关键人物雅各布由一无所有的流浪者变为正直仁慈的农场主,再逐渐沦为贪婪和欲望的精神奴隶的蜕变过程进行分析,旨在唤醒人们根除奴性的觉悟,超越奴役,回归自我。
People in the modern society attach too much to the physical life, while spiritual life is shrouded by their material de sire, and then gradually fades away. Servitude as a metaphor of human existence means the lack of subjectivity. Servitude could occur in any level besides slavery system itself. This paper explores the key character Jacob Vaark in A Mercy. Jacob, a penniless waif luckily changes into a kind and physical free landowner while gradually changes into a spirit slave owing to his greed and lust for fortune, so as to arouse people's consciousness of eradicating slavish imprints, and return to the real oneself..
出处
《海外英语》
2013年第19期180-181,202,共3页
Overseas English
