Analysis of Deformation of Human Beings in The Hairy Ape, The Rainbow and Lord of the Flies 析《毛猿》、《虹》和《蝇王》中的人物异化.doc

金属的心——析《毛猿》、《虹》和《蝇王》中的人物异化 Metallic Heart — Analysis of Deformation of Human Beings in The Hairy Ape , The Rainbow and Lord of the Flies Acknowledgements I am greatly indebted to my thesis supervisor, . Without her patient assistance and friendly encouragement, it would not be possible for me plete this thesis in such a short period of time without reducing its scholarly quality. I want to express my heartfelt thanks to two anonymous readers for their ments on an earlier version of this paper. My special thanks should go to for their very helpful suggestions in terms of the content and style of this paper. My sincere thanks should also go to Central Connecticut State University for all the support and assistance, financial, scholarly, and technical, it has provided during my one-&-half-year stay in the States, and especially, to Northwest Normal University, my home institute in China, for giving me such a wonderful opportunity to work and study inone of American universities. 摘要二十世纪有两种荒唐的现象:人的物化和物的人化。随着社会化大生产的飞速发展,本拟协助人类生产的机器及技术逐渐奴役了人们,人失去了思想,失去了尊严, 失去了自我,成了绝对服从,决不反抗的人——机械化的人——受役于机器,是生产的工具;同时物还不断消解着人对精神的追求,将人变成了纯粹的物质的人。机械化、工具化都隶属于人的异化。本文选择了《毛猿》、《蝇王》和《虹》来展示作家们对人物化、边缘化、动物化等人异化的揭露,指出了异化对人性的解放、人类的发展与进步的威胁;人际隔阂、陌生感、局外感、孤独感使人对生存产生了莫名的焦虑;人的异化使人类本身的存在成了最大的荒诞,生存的意义受到了挑战。关键词:物化;边缘化;存在;荒诞 A BSTRACT There are two kinds of absurdities in the 20 th century: mechanization of human and humanization of machines. With the astonishing development of mass-production, mechanics and technology which initially arose and designed as an aid to human beings, slave human gradually. As a consequence, humans are losing their minds, dignity and self-personality, with perfect obedience but without any defiance — the mechanized human, slaved by matter and instrumented by production, corrupting spiritual pursuit to purely physical thing. Such are the deformation of human beings. This paper chooses The Hairy Ape , Lord of the Flie s and The Rainbow to display mechanization, marginalization and anima