《宠儿》中的母爱分析_英语论文

An Analysis of Maternal Love in Beloved

摘要

托尼·莫里森，一九九三年诺贝尔文学奖的得主，是世界文学史上首位摘此桂冠的非裔女作家。《宠儿》是托尼.莫里森最杰出的作品之一。自《宠儿》出版以来，就有许多专家学者分别从女性主义，黑人伤痛，黑人文化等视角对其进行解读，这让《宠儿》的思想内涵得以不断丰富和完善。本文将从母爱的视角阐述主人公在三种不同情况下的母爱及其表现形式。从天性的角度，主人公的母爱是自然流露的；在奴隶制度下，主人公的母爱是被扭曲的；在女儿索要母爱的过程中，主人公的母爱是用于补偿的。

  在压迫的奴隶制度下，黑人的母爱是压抑的，不能正常给予的，最终是以扭曲的形式表达出来。在一个健康的社会制度下，母亲应该有权利正常表达母爱，表达自己对孩子的爱。

关键词： 《宠儿》 托尼.莫里森 母爱 奴隶制

Abstract

Toni Morrison, the 1993 Nobel Prize Winner of Literature, is the first African-American female Nobel Prize laureate in literature. Beloved is one of the most distinguished works of Toni Morrison. Since the novel came out, many experts and scholars has analyzed it, some from feminism, some from black pain or black culture, which has been constantly enriching the thoughts in Beloved and making it more and more complete. From the perspective of maternal love, this paper tries to analyze the maternal love of the protagonist and its form of presentation in three different situations. From the view of nature, the maternal love is natural. Under the slavery, the maternal love is distorted. In the process of daughter’s asking for maternal love, the maternal love is compensatory.

Under the oppressive institution of slavery in which the maternal love of black mothers is repressive. This kind of love isn’t given in a normal way but in a form of distorted way finally. In a healthy social institution, mothers should have right to express their maternal love in a normal way to their children.

Key words: Beloved Toni Morrison Maternal Love Slavery