从《嘉丽妹妹》和《珍妮姑娘》看德菜塞的道德哲学

在《嘉丽妹妹》和《珍妮姑娘》这两部作品中,德莱塞刻画出了两个性格迥异、命运不同的女性形象.通过对嘉丽和珍妮这两个女性的描写,作家旨在反映他独树一帜的自然主义道德观:人的行为是内在的本能和外在的环境共同作用的结果;人只是被动的实施者,因此他的行为没有对错之分;传统的道德已失去它的现实意义.正是通过这些思想,德莱塞确立了自己美国自然主义思潮创始人的地位.

Dreiser's Moral Philosophy Expressed in Sister Carrie and Jennie Gerhardt

In Sister Carrie and Jennie Gerhardt Dreiser depicted two girls of diverse personalities and ensuing fates to reflect his unique naturalistic ethic that human behavior resulted from intrinsic instinct in combination with extrinsic environment.In his view human beings were just the passive ones doing the combination,so there was no morally right or wrong and the traditional moral standard was outdated in the modern society.This is just the reason why Dreiser won the title of "Naturalistic Founder" in American literary history.