贞洁·美德·报偿——论《帕梅拉》的贞洁观  

Virginity, Virtue and Reward: The View of Virginity of Pamela

作　　者：朱卫红[1] 

机构地区：[1]华中师范大学外语学院

出　　处：《外国文学研究》2006年第4期84-89,共6页Foreign Literature Studies

摘　　要：塞缪尔·理查生的《帕梅拉》出版后同时引起了热捧和批评,一时激起轩然大波,究其原因,这部小说的副标题“美德的报偿”能够说明一些问题。在很大程度上,是“报偿”二字吸引了大量的妇女,让她们看到了自己的贞洁的实在意义;也是“报偿”二字刺激了一些道德家的神经,让他们意识到物质主义对道德体系的侵蚀。本文主要考察《帕梅拉》这部小说所体现的贞洁观。在本文作者看来,这部小说继承了传统的贞洁观,即认为女人的第一美德是贞洁,同时也提出了带有功利主义倾向的“报偿论”。理查生的“贞洁报偿论”明显受到18世纪物质主义思想的影响,但它符合当时的社会现实和人们的心理需求,使得作者的道德劝善更容易为读者所接受。The subtitle, ＂Virtue Rewarded,＂ of Samuel Richardson＇s Pamela, may explain why this novel received both warm welcome and satire after its publication. To a great extent, it was the word ＂reward＂ that attracted the attention of a vast number of women, who were delighted to discover the true value of their virginity; it was also this word that offended some moralists, who came to realize the invasion of materialism into the existing moral system. The article is aimed at an examination of the view of virginity expressed in this novel. The author of this article believes that this novel has inherited the traditional view of virginity in that it ranks virginity as the first and foremost women＇s virtue, but at the same time affirms the validity of reward for women＇s virginity, a theory that has obviously resulted from the influence of materialism that was prevailing in the eighteenth century England. Richardson＇s theory of reward accorded with the social reality of his time and satisfied the people＇s psychological needs, thus was easily accepted by a large number of readers.

关 键 词：塞缪尔·理查生 《帕梅拉》 贞洁 报偿 

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