《士兵归来》中的失忆症

发布时间：2018-01-03 14:27

本文关键词：《士兵归来》中的失忆症　出处：《西南大学》2015年硕士论文　论文类型：学位论文

【摘要】：丽贝卡·韦斯特是20世纪英国重要的小说家和评论家。她的大部分作品都反映了她对当时社会的态度,《士兵归来》就是其中之一。在这部小说里,韦斯特描述了一个硝烟弥漫、动荡不安的社会。生存在这样的社会环境下,人们宁愿选择失忆来逃避残酷的社会现实。小说主人公克里斯的最后记忆之所以停留在190]年,是因为这一年维多利亚女王去世、爱德华王子继位。爱德华时代在英国历史上是一个比较动荡的时代,一战把整个社会变成了人间地狱,人们饱受战乱之苦。因此小说中克里斯只记得1901年前所发生的事情,而忘记1901年后发生的所有事情。通过把这段空白记忆放在这样的一个残酷背景下,韦斯特试图揭示西方现代社会的动荡和战争给人们的生活带来的巨大灾难。许多评论家从不同角度对这部小说做了丰富的研究,包括创伤、女性主义、性别身份等角度,但是很少有人触及小说中的失忆症主题。通过比较研究克里斯隐藏的记忆和丢失的记忆,本文着眼于失忆症主题研究,旨在揭示当时的动荡社会和战争给人们生活带来的灾难。最后,克里斯复原的记忆,又将他送回这样的社会现实。小说题目具有深刻的讽刺意义,男主人公克里斯遭受的失忆症痛苦,并不是一种特殊个体际遇,而是生活在那个时代的大多数人们的社会现实,因为失忆症对他们而言是最好的逃避社会残酷现实的方法。本文除导论和结束语,共分三章。第一章结合残酷的社会现实,分析了克里斯遗失的记忆。内心的压抑和残酷的战争长久地困扰着他,而所有这些悲伤的记忆都是当前社会现实的产物。第二章主要讨论克里斯隐藏的记忆。克里斯在忘记残酷现实的同时,选择性地重拾1901年之前的记忆,其中包括他幼时的记忆,对恋人玛格丽特的记忆等。通过对这些美好的记忆的描述,其背后的意义也就不言而喻了,它是和平安定的象征,也是逃避现实社会的有效手段。第三章主要讨论了克里斯记忆的恢复。如果说记忆的恢复意味着重回现实,那么现实究竟是怎么样的呢?现实就是残酷动荡,硝烟弥漫的战火年代。因此在那个年代,人们若想从失忆症中恢复过来,他们就面临着重返战场的残酷事实。所以克里斯的恢复有强烈的讽刺意味。结束语部分,本文指出残酷的社会现实和战争给人们带来了极大的灾难。因此人们选择失忆来逃避现实。事实上改变个体命运的唯一途径是改变当前的动荡社会,停止发动战争。
[Abstract]:Rebecca West was an important British novelist and critic in 20th century. Most of her works reflect her attitude to society, including the return of soldiers. West describes a smoky, turbulent society in which he lives. People prefer to choose amnesia to escape the cruel social reality. Chris's last memory stays at 190 years because of the death of Queen Victoria that year. Prince Edward's succession. Edward's time was a turbulent one in British history, and World War I turned the whole society into a hell on earth. People suffer from war. So Chris only remembers what happened before 1901. And forget everything that happened after 1901. By putting this blank memory in such a cruel context. West tries to reveal the upheaval of modern western society and the great disaster brought by war to people's life. Many critics have done a lot of research on the novel from different angles, including trauma and feminism. Gender identity and other perspectives, but few people touch on the theme of amnesia in the novel. Through a comparative study of Chris' hidden memory and lost memory, this paper focuses on the theme of amnesia. Finally, Chris recovers his memory and sends him back to such social reality. The title of the novel is deeply ironic. Chris's suffering from amnesia is not a special personal encounter, but the social reality of most people living in that era. Because amnesia is the best way to escape the cruel reality of society for them. In addition to the introduction and conclusion, this paper is divided into three chapters. Chapter one combines the cruel social reality. Analyzes Chris's lost memory. His inner repression and brutal war haunt him for a long time. All these sad memories are the product of current social realities. Chapter two focuses on Chris's hidden memory, which selectively restores memories before 1901 while forgetting cruel realities. These include memories of his childhood, memories of his lover Marguerite, and so on. Through the description of these beautiful memories, the meaning behind them is self-evident, and it is a symbol of peace and stability. It is also an effective means to escape from reality. Chapter three mainly discusses the restoration of Chris' memory. If the restoration of memory means returning to reality, what is the reality? The reality is a time of brutal upheaval, an era of gunfire. So in those days, people wanted to recover from amnesia. They face the cruel fact of returning to the battlefield. So Chris's recovery is ironic. Conclusion. This paper points out that cruel social reality and war have brought great disaster to people. Therefore, people choose amnesia to escape reality. In fact, the only way to change the fate of individuals is to change the current turbulent society. Stop waging war.
【学位授予单位】：西南大学
【学位级别】：硕士
【学位授予年份】：2015
【分类号】：I561.074

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