石楠花的象征意义.docVIP

在曼陀丽，石南花“美得反常，大的出奇” ［1］（P70），“红的像鲜血” ［1］（P69） “茂盛得难以置信” ［1］（P70）。曼陀丽的美景是吕蓓卡一手布置的，这些令“我”恐惧的石南花当然也是她的杰作。吕蓓卡对这些略带血腥的石南花有着特别的偏爱，也正是因此，石南花成了吕蓓卡的象征。如曼陀丽的石南花一样，吕蓓卡美貌出众、举止高贵、精明能干、精力充沛、深得人心。In Manderley, rhododendrons are “beautiful, unusual and surprisingly large” [1] (P70) “red as blood” [1] (P69) “incredible lush” [1] (P70). The layout of Manderley is designed by Rebecca handedly, and these flowers that make me fear of, of course, is her masterpiece. Rebecca has a special love for these slightly bloody rhododendrons; as a result, rhododendrons become a symbol of Rebecca. Like these flowers in Manderley, she is outstanding in beauty, and her manners are noble. Besides, she is smart, energetic and won the hearts of everybody in Manderley. 在小说的伊始，“我”就在梦中提到了石南花。“石南花竟高达一百五十码，它们与羊齿绞曲缠绕在一起，还和一大簇无名的灌木胡乱交配。” ［1］（P2）。石南花成了“我”噩梦中对曼陀丽那些诡异的植物、景色描写不可或缺的一个部分，这和“我”的经历是分不开的。“我”初到曼陀丽，就被“红得像鲜血”的石南花“着实吓了一跳”。 In the beginning of the novel, I refer to the rhododendrons in my dream. “The rhododendrons stood fifty feet high, twisted and entwined with bracken, and they had entered into alien marriage with a host of nameless shrubs” [1] (P2). The flowers have become an integral part of landscape description about those strange plants in my nightmare. It is inseparable from my own experience. At my first coming to Manderley, I am horrified by the flowers which are “as red as blood”. ［1］（P69） 曼陀丽的石南花完全不像之前见过的石南花，是“一种普通的家花”“整齐的排列在圆形的花圃中”，而是“因为过分的浓艳，显得非常怪异”，像“一群高耸的密集巨怪” ［1］（P70），形成“高出人头的一堵血红色的墙” ［1］（P69）。已故的吕蓓卡在“我”初到曼陀丽的时候，就以其偏爱的石南花给“我”之后在曼陀丽的生活奠下了恐怖的色彩。之后，“我”明显的感到虽然吕蓓卡早已故去，她的身影却在曼陀丽处处可见，正如石南花处处可见一样。 The rhododendrons in Manderley is not like the flowers I have seen before, it is not “a homely, domestic thing” “standing one beside the other in a neat round bed”, but monsters. “Rearing to the sky massed like a battalion, too beautiful I thought, too powerful; they were not plants at all.”(Rebecca: 70) The late Rebecca brings terror color to my further life in Manderley through her favor –rhododendrons