“洪水”般的工业革命:毁灭与再生——《弗罗斯河上的磨坊》的“洪水”结局新解  

The Flood-Like Industrial Revolution:Damage and Rebirth:A New Interpretation of the End of The Mill on the Floss

作　　者：王素英[1] 

机构地区：[1]河北师范大学外国语学院

出　　处：《英美文学研究论丛》2010年第2期95-104,共10页English and American Literary Studies

基　　金：河北师范大学学科建设基金项目资助。项目编号:200901020

摘　　要：乔治·爱略特的小说《弗罗斯河上的磨坊》结尾的"洪水"意象一直是学者们评论的焦点之一。兄妹俩为何在洪水中和解的问题引起了国内外许多学者的关注,但大家的看法见仁见智,至今难有定论。本文把小说放在工业化这一时代背景下进行考察,并结合"洪水"的原型意义,尝试为小说结尾的"洪水"意象提供一种新的解读:洪水象征轰轰烈烈的工业革命,它给人类带来了巨大的破坏性和毁灭性,但其客观的再生性为人类创造了重生的机会。The end of George Eliot's novel The Mill on the Floss has been one of the focuses of scholars' criticism.Why do the brother and sister become reconciled in the 'flood'? This question has caught the attention of many scholars home and abroad.However,there has not been a definite answer to it.By putting the novel under the background of industrialization and combining the archetypal meaning of the 'flood',we can find that the 'flood' at the end of the novel symbolizes the stormy and heroic industrial revolution which brought great damage and destruction to human beings but whose objective regenerating effect created for human beings the opportunity of rebirth.

关 键 词：工业革命 洪水 毁灭性 再生性 重生 

分 类 号：I561[文学—其他各国文学]