论阿特伍德作品中的冥河意象

在西方文学传统中,冥河意象是一种应用甚广的文学原型。对于冥河意象,阿特伍德认为畅游冥界是为了从死者那里获得秘密和力量。阿特伍德不仅让女性们潜入水下和死者进行交流,而且让她们借助水的沟通功能在水中找到自己内心的阿克隆河——潜意识,并唤醒那里的唯一死者——被男权社会扼杀了的自己的＂化身＂。同时,让女性们在水中经历死亡,完成获得新生的＂通过仪式＂。本文通过文本细读,分析冥河意象和女性的密切关系,研究它如何成为了女主人公们寻找自我、获得新生的既具有关键作用又富有深意的仪式。

Acheron Image in Atwood's Works

In western literary traditions,Acheron image is a literary archetype of highly extensive uses.For the Acheron image,Atwood analyzed that the reason for females' traveling through the ghostdom was that they want to get secrets and strength from the dead.Atwood not only let the females go underwater to communicate with the dead,but also let them find Acheron in their mind(subconscious ness)by means of water's communicating function and wake up the only dead there(her own incarnation strangled by male chauvini...