时代与社会背景下的身份危-《人性的污点》中主要人物的身份危机与社会原因的分析_英语论文

The Analysis of the Identity Crisis of the Main Characters in Philip Roth’s The Human Stain

摘要

《人性的污点》作为菲利普罗思的后美国三部曲的最后一部，它讲诉了一个把自己伪装成犹太人的非裔美国人的一生。本文研究小说中三个主要人物面临的身份危机以及其背后的时代与社会原因。论文主要分为两个部分。第一部分讨论了小说人物面临的不同身份危机：科尔曼西尔克的种族身份危机及其引发的家庭的矛盾;福妮雅法利阶级地位的降低及其假装不识字的行为；莱斯特法利经过战争洗礼之后丧失理智，最终变成一个冷血的杀手。第二部分分析了人物身份危机背后不同的社会原因，包括对于科尔曼西尔克的种族歧视和迫害精神，对于福妮雅法利性别歧视和阶级歧视以及越南战争给莱斯特法利带来的战后创伤。通过总结，最终概括出了社会的污秽是上层阶级白种男人主导的社会。

关键词: 身份危机  社会原因  人性的污秽  社会的污秽  

Abstract

The Human Stain is the last novel of Philip Roth’s famous thematic “American Trilogy”. The story tells the tragic life of a black man Coleman Silk who pretends to be a Jew. This paper mainly analyses the identity crisis that the three characters face and the social causes of their identity crisis. Part one presents a brief introduction of the identity crisis facing the characters: Coleman Silk’s racial identity crisis and the conflict it brings to him in his family; Faunia Farley’s status downfall and the concealment of her literacy; Lester Farley’s loss of sense. Part two reveals the social causes of the identity crisis in this novel: racialism and the persecuting spirit for Coleman Silk, sexism and classism for Faunia Farley and the PDST caused by The Vietnam War for Lester Farley. Finally, the author makes a conclusion that the social stain suggests the society dominated by upper class white men.

Keywords: identity crisis  social cause  the human stain  the social stain.