Abstract:

As an female English writer, critic, Virginia Woolf was one representative of the stream of consciousness novel. She is also considered one of the pioneers of the 20th century modernism and feminism. In the traditional realism debate, Woolf made new viewpoints to shape the characters. To the Lighthouse as a classic stream-of-consciousness novel presents her novel theory vividly—the truth of life exists in the spiritual world of the complex characters, so the performance of “inner truth” should be the purpose of a novelist. To realize their creative ideas, Woolf used in a large number of symbolic images to suggest the character’s inherent emotions and thoughts, and succeeded in making the narrative across time and space. The large number of mysterious symbolic images in the novel not only roused critics and readers’ interest and attention, but also makes the novel itself full of diverse significance and controversy.

Key words: stream of consciousness; symbol; image

摘要：

弗吉尼亚 • 伍尔夫，英国女作家，批判家，意识流小说的代表人物之一。被认为是二十世纪现代主义与女性主义的先锋之一伍尔夫在传统写实主义的论战中，提出了要用新的理念来塑造人物形象。《到灯塔去》作为伍尔夫的意识流小说的压卷之作，具体而生动地展示了她的小说理论——即生活的真实性存在于人物复杂多变的精神世界，故表现“内在真实”应成为小说家创作的宗旨。为实现其创作理念，伍尔夫在小说中运用了大量的象征意象来暗示人物内在的性格和思想情绪，并成功地使叙述跨越时空。该小说里大量独特新颖又充满神秘特质的象征意象不仅引起了评论家们和读者的兴趣与关注，也使小说本身充满了多元的意义及争议。

关键词：意识流；象征；意象

1. Introduction
1.1 Introduction to Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf (1882 –1941) was an English writer, and one of the pioneering modernists of the 20th century. Woolf was born in London and started writing articles in 1905。In the beginning, she wrote for the Times Literary Supplement with a journalistic essay about home of the Brontë family. In 1915, her first novel The Voyage Out was published, and the subsequent works are loved and widely read by critics and readers.