《蓝色的海豚岛》的生态主义解读_英语论文

An Ecological Interpretation of Island of the Blue dolphins

摘要

司各特•奥台尔是一位著名的美国作家，他一生共创作了26部儿童作品。《蓝色的海豚岛》是他创作于1960 年的一部儿童文学作品。这部作品在1976年被儿童文学协会誉为两百年来十佳儿童文学之一。作品讲述了一个土著女孩卡拉娜独自在一个外形近似海豚的孤岛上生活多年，与岛上生物从斗争到共处的生活经历，从而表达了作者的生态保护意识。本论文以阿伦•奈斯提出的深层生态学为指导理论，以人与自然的关系为出发点，力图剖析小说中所揭示的人类与自然以及人与人和谐发展的重要性和必要性。

关键词：司各特•奥台尔；《蓝色的海豚岛》；深层生态主义；生物圈平等；自我实现

Abstract

Scott O'Dell is a famous American writer who has written 26 children's literature. Island of the Blue Dolphins is a children's literature of the famous American writer, Scott O'Dell, who wrote in 1960. In 1976, the Children's Literature Association named it one of the ten best American children's books of the past two hundred years. The work tells the story of an Aboriginal girl Karana who lived alone in an island which looks like a dolphin for many years and her life experiences with the island's creatures from the struggle to live together to express the author's ecological consciousness. This thesis tries to analyze the importance and necessity of harmonious development between man and nature, and the relationship between human being with the deep ecology proposed by Arne Naess as a guide theory.

Keywords: Scott O'Dell; Island of the Blue Dolphins; deep ecology; biocentric equality; self-realization

Contents

1.Introduction 1

2.Literature Review 3

3. The Character's Failure to Keep Biocentric Equality 3

3.1 Man's domination over nature 4

3.2 Man's punishment from nature 5

4. The Different Characters' Struggle For Self-realization 5

4.1The Aleut's narrow and egoistic interests 6

4.2 Karana's struggle for self-realization 8

5. Conclusion 9

Works Cited 10