马克思主义视角下《嘉莉妹妹》的人性异化

在马克思主义关于人性异化论的视角下,西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》创作的主题意义在于揭示资本主义金钱社会所产生的人类精神畸变和社会邪恶,其本质原因即人性的异化。人性的异化主要体现在作为劳动主体的人与劳动产物之间关系的异化,以及人与人之间关系的异化。《嘉莉妹妹》中由于外部拜金主义生活方式的腐蚀,以及内在个人私欲的驱使,人与人之间的关系日趋冷漠,作为个体存在的人产生自我异化,人与社会开始疏离,一切都变成陌生,个人处于隔离的境遇,产生一种无所依托的心境。作者热情地呼唤人类的良知,强烈地抨击利己主义生存方式,对我们当今建设和谐社会具有一定的启示与教育意义。

Marxist's View of the Alienation of Human Nature in Sister Carrie

In the perspective of Marxist's theory of human alienation, the thematic significance of Theodore Dreiser's novel Sister Carrie lies in its exposure of human spiritual crisis and social viciousness as the result of the money-oriented capitalist society. While the essential cause for such phenomenon is the alienation of human nature. The alienation of human nature mainly reflected in the reification of labor product and the labor force, the alienative relationship between men. In Sister Carrie, because of the outer corrupt money-oriented lifestyle and the distortion of man's inner world, the relationship between men becomes more and more indifferent, man lose his own personal consciousness, man alienated from the society, everything becomes strange and the men feels lonely in a isolated place. The writer evokes the human's consciousness fervently, intensely expose the egoism lifestyle. This will have great enlightenment and significance for us to face nowadays' society.