狄更斯中产阶级价值观论析

On Dickens' Values of Middle Class

对工业化发展带来的物质繁荣和社会转型,狄更斯怀有一种爱恨交织的矛盾情怀;对维多利亚时代富足与贫穷共存的悖论,他有着与众不同的、富有想像力的理解。狄更斯的人道主义情怀和社会正义感驱使他通过揭露和批判英国社会的阴暗面和弊端来维护中产阶级价值观和现存的社会制度,他的批判是一种建设性批判,是以维护中产阶级价值观和现存的社会制度为前提。他期望自己的揭露与警示能有助于使当时的社会具有更强的合理性。

Dickens had a mixed feeling of love and hatred to material prosperity and social changes brought by industrial development, had a unique and imaginative understanding of the co-existence of prosperity and poverty in Victorian Times. Driven by humanist sympathy and sense of social justice, he disclosed and criticized the dark sides and maladies of the society at that time, and his constructive criticism aimed to protect values of the middle-class and the existing social system. He wished that his disclosure and warning would bring much rationality to the society.