再现《圣经》世界中的“替罪羊”——评析《旧约·撒母耳记》和《卡斯特桥市长》中人与社会冲突的主题

Scapegoat in Incarnated Biblical World:Clashes Between Society and Man in Old Testament·Samuel and The Mayor of Casterbridge

在《圣经》原型的对照下,从另一个视角分析了托马斯·哈代的小说《卡斯特桥市长》中的主人公迈克·亨察尔的悲剧:人束缚于社会新旧秩序交替的冲突之中,当人不能顺应社会发展的潮流时,最终会成为社会向前发展的牺牲品"替罪羊"。对《旧约·撒母耳记》中扫罗与大卫的故事和《卡斯特桥市长》中亨察尔与伐尔伏雷故事的比较研究不难看出,人与社会的冲突是人类社会永恒的主题。

Thomas Hardy is a Bible-influenced writer whose The Mayor of Casterbridge is set against an incarnated biblical world. This thesis focuses on a comparative study on a selected narrative of Saul and David from Bible and a story of Henchard and Farfrae from The Mayor of Casterbridge. It intends to analyze clashes between society and man to catch the essential spirit of tragedy in term of scapegoat: clashes between the Old and the New.