摘要
莱辛因为处女作《野草在歌唱》而广为人知,被认为是二战以后最优秀的作品之一。历年来,不断有学者和批评家从女性主义,后殖民主义等理论角度来剖析这部作品,主要关注男权社会下女性的悲惨命运以及殖民白人与土著黑人之间的尖锐矛盾。本文则试图从神话原型批评的视角出发,通过运用弗莱的魔怪意象理论来分析小说中的荒原意象,由此来解读女主人公玛丽悲剧人生的成因,可以看出莱辛在小说中对女性命运的关注。
Because of the debut work ＂The Grass Is Singing＂,Lessing gets her popularity and the work is considered as one of the most outstanding ones after World War II.In recent years,there have been scholars and critics analyze this work from a theoretical point of feminism and post -colonialism,they have made more concerns for the the tragic fate of the women in the society of men rights and the sharp conflicts between the colonial whites and indigenous blacks.This paper analyzes the wilder-ness imagery in ＂The Grass Is Singing＂by using the theory of Frye＆#39;s monster prototype to interpret the causes of the tragic fate of the heroine -Mary in the critical perspective of tale prototype,from which we know that Lessing show much concerns for the women fate.
