论托尼·莫里森《宠儿》中的母女关系_英语论文

An Analysis of Mother-daughter Relationship in Toni Morrison’s Beloved 

摘要

托尼·莫里森是美国当代文学史上最著名的黑人女作家之一，曾获得1993的诺贝尔文学奖。《宠儿》是她最著名的小说之一，它讲述了一个黑奴母亲杀死自己亲生女儿的故事。本论文旨在研究塞丝与宠儿之间复杂的母女关系。本论文将分为三个部分：第一部分将对比塞丝与贝比·萨格斯在黑奴制压迫下的不同选择，分析塞丝失去自我的原因---塞丝无法忘记过去，对孩子的爱过于深厚，以致忘记了自己才是最应珍惜的；第二部分将列出塞丝与宠儿之间母女关系的表现---塞丝被迫放弃了宠儿，宠儿还魂归来后向塞丝索取缺失的母爱；第三部分将分析黑人社区对黑人个体的引导作用。

关键词:母女关系  托尼·莫里森  宠儿

Abstract

Toni Morrison is one of the most famous African-American writers in contemporary American literature. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1993. Beloved is one of Toni Morrison’s most famous novels. It narrates a story of a slave mother---Sethe---murdering her own daughter---Beloved. This paper aims to analyze the reasons behind the twisted mother-daughter relationship between Sethe and Beloved. The whole contents will be divided into three parts: Firstly, the paper would compare Sethe’s with Baby Suggs’s different choices under slavery, then analyze the reason why Sethe has lost her self-identity---she is immersed with the past and her dead daughter without knowing that she should treasure herself. Secondly, the paper will demonstrate the representations of the mother-daughter relationship between Sethe and Beloved---Sethe is forced to give Beloved up; Beloved wants to possess Sethe’s love when she returns. Thirdly, the paper will analyze the great impact that the black community has on the black individuals. 

Keywords:mother-daughter relationship    Toni Morrison    Beloved