《夜色温柔》中迪克悲剧命运的分析_英语论文

An Analysis of Dick’ s Tragic Fate in Tender Is the Night

摘要

《夜色温柔》是菲茨杰拉德生前所完成的最后一部带有半自传性质的长篇小说，讲述了一个满怀梦想的年轻人最终自我沉沦的悲剧故事。男主人公迪克是一个年轻有为的精神病医生，因在治疗过程中结识了美貌与财富并存的尼科尔并娶其为妻后，便走上了一条迎合上流社会、逐渐丧失自我的道路。故事最终以尼科尔的抛弃、迪克孑然一身回到家乡默默行医而悲剧结尾。本文从人性角度入手，深刻分析造成迪克悲剧命运的历史、社会以及个人因素，并结合工业文明时期“物质化”思想对人性的异化，探讨了在农业社会向工业社会转型过程中可能会存在的一系列问题，以此来使我国得到启示和借鉴。

关键词：菲茨杰拉德；《夜色温柔》；物质主义；异化

Abstract

Tender Is the Night, Fitzgerald’ s last semi-autobiographical full-length novel, tells a tragic story of an ambitious young man ending up with self-destruction. The hero Dick in Tender Is the Night is a promising young psychiatrist. Because meeting and marring Nicole who is full of beauty and wealth in the process of treatment, he embarks on catering for high society and loses himself gradually. The story eventually ends up with Nicole’ s abandonment and Dick returns to his hometown alone to work as an ordinary doctor. From the perspective of human nature and on the analysis of Dick’ s tragic fate in historical, social and personal factors, this paper combines with the alienation of human nature caused by materialization in industrial civilization period to discuss a series of problems may exist in the transformation from agricultural society to industrial society, which is a great revelation and reference to China.

Key words: Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald; Tender Is the Night; materialization; alienation