摘  要

《儿子与情人》是英国作家劳伦斯的力作。它描写了一段畸形的母爱，主角莫瑞尔太太把自己涌动的激情，倾注到了儿子身上，自己也从儿子身上获取了从自己丈夫身上得不到的爱情感觉。而《金锁记》堪称是张爱玲最完美的作品之一。它通过对主人公曹七巧疯狂的报复行为以及对其子女的扭曲的爱的描写，揭示了酿成主角一家悲剧结尾的根因。这两部小说都反应了人性异化这一社会现象。前者中莫瑞尔太太与儿子保罗之间畸形的母子情深与后者中曹七巧对其儿子姜长白的态度颇有相似之处，本文通过对这两部小说中主人公的家庭背景，婚姻生活及扭曲的心理的对比研究，得出家庭矛盾及母亲对子女过激的爱是造成人性异化的主要原因。

关键词：人性异化；对比研究；家庭矛盾；过激的爱

Abstract

Sons and Lovers is one of the masterpieces of English novelist D. H. Lawrence. This novel describes a kind of abnormal maternal love from mother, Mrs. Morel, to son, Paul. The heroines in Sons and Lovers, Mrs. Morel, pours her passion on her son, and at the same time, she gets the feeling of romantic love affection which her husband cannot give her in their marriage life. The Golden Cangue is regarded by novelists as one of the prefect works of Eileen Chang. And this novel describes the crazy revenge behavior of the heroine, Cao Qiqiao, who loves her children in an abnormal way and disclosures the main reasons of the family tragedy. Both of these two novels reflect the social phenomenon---alienation of human nature. The close relationship between Mrs. Morel and her son Paul in Sons and Lovers is like that between Cao Qiqiao and her son Jiang Changbai in The Golden Cangue. This paper focuses on the reasons for the alienation of one’s human nature. And after a comparative study on family background, marriage life as well as the twisted psychology of the two mothers, this paper gets a conclusion that it is family conflicts and mother’s passionate love to son that are the main reasons for the alienation of human nature.

Key words: alienation of human nature；comparative study；family conflict；passionate love

1 Introduction

Alienation of human nature becomes a severe social problem in present society. To be alienated is to be distanced, or in opposition, or somehow not in the proper relationship to something. In saying that we are alienated, Marx is claiming that “we do not stand not in the proper to certain products, activities, people or features of our lives”. This paper will study on this social problem through comparing the two novels---Sons and Lovers and The Golden Cangue.

1.1 The purpose of this paper

Alienation of human nature, as a kind of special social phenomenon, existed in the primitive society. However, people did not begin to study on this kind of social phenomenon until 18 century. As we know, Sons and Lovers and The Golden Cangue are both novels which reflect the alienation of human. In these two novels, the heroines have the similar fate and marriage experience ----they both feel despairing to their own life and marriage，and at the end they both ended up in twisted psychology.