王尔德童话中的宗教意象_英语论文

The Religious Image in Oscar Wilde’s Fairy Tales 

摘要

王尔德的每篇童话中都包含有宗教意象，其九篇童话中的八篇都有人物死亡的情节。但每个人物死亡所蕴含的意义和原因也不尽相同。本论文根据王尔德童话中主要人物因死亡而表现出的主题进行分类，粗略归纳为人物因爱与奉献而死和因救赎而死两种主题。从人物死亡的原因切入，联系其它宗教意象和这些意象在宗教上的解释，分析童话中人物死亡和出现这些意象的作用，最后总结并推测王尔德使用这些意象的目的。

关键词：《快乐王子及其它童话》 《石榴屋》宗教意象 奥斯卡.王尔德

Abstract

Most of Oscar Wilde’s fairy tales contain religious images. Death is one of the religious images that make his stories different from other writers’ work. The main characters' death can be distributed as death for love as well as devotion or death for salvation. This paper selects some of the characters and discusses what each character's death means. In the fourth part it lists some possible reasons related with aestheticism, Victorian Era and religion to explain why Oscar Wilde used these religious images and what roles these religious images play in his fairy tales.

Keywords：The Happy Prince and Other Fairy Tales  A House of Pomegranate  religious image  Oscar Wilde