浅析《烧马棚》中女性人物的屈从性.docxVIP

ISSN ISSN 1009-5039 Overseas English 海 外 英 语 zwwx@ Tel:+86-551Ov Overseas English 海外英语 2014 年 10 月 陈西, 吴兰香 （东南大学 外国语学院，江苏 南京 211189) 摘要：《烧马棚》是美国著名作家威廉·福克纳的一部广为人知的短篇小说。故事发生在美国内战后，通过敏感男孩萨蒂的 第三人称视角，向读者展示了阶级冲突，种族冲突，道德冲突以及他父亲的复仇。众多的评论家历来青睐小说中的矛盾冲 突，而很少重视小说中的女性形象。尽管福克纳对小说中女性人物尤其萨蒂的阿姨和姐姐的描写上着笔甚少，但是她们 在故事中的重要性故却是不可忽视的。该文将主要分析小说中女性人物的屈从性，以帮助读者更好解读小说，同时也向 读者能展示当时美国南部人民真实的生活状况，尤其是帮助读者了解当时妇女的真实生活状况以及她们的社会地位。 关键词：烧马棚；女性人物；屈从性；美国南部 中图分类号：I106 文献标识码：A 文章编号：1009-5039(2014)19-0208-03 1 Introduction As a Nobel Prize winner in literature in 1949, William Faulkner is one of the most important writers in both American lit? erature generally and Southern literature specifically. During the whole life of William Faulkner, he creates almost twenty novels, six poetry volumes and over seventy short stories. In William Faulkners works, these women who live in the south, both the black and the white, all suffering unequal treatment from southern society, and no matter how they struggle and no matter how they try to cater to unreasonable requirements from southern society, they all can not find a road to happiness in the end of the novels (Zhao, Chen). But Faulkner’s attitude towards female is complex. To wom? en, he was always filled with both affection and fear, love and ha? tred. To him, women were between angels and spirits and liable to harm men. Such complicated mentality came from his family back? ground, the cultural environment he was in, traditional Christian ideas and his own experience (Liu, Daoquan). In his short story Barn Burning, a widely acknowledged one, we can plainly see his attitude towards the female characters. The story, setting after the American civil war, deals mainly with class conflicts, racial conflicts, moral conflicts and the father’s ven? geance viewed through the third-person perspective of a young, im? pressionable child Sarty. In the story, William Faulkner laid less stress on the description of the female characters espec