《真相毕露》中的身份错位与伦理选择

外国文学研究 ›› 2021, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (4): 134-143.

《真相毕露》中的身份错位与伦理选择

刘茂生

发布日期:2021-08-29
作者简介:刘茂生,广东外语外贸大学“云山杰出学者”,英语语言文化学院教授,主要研究英美文学、文学伦理学批评、叙事学。
基金资助:
广东外语外贸大学阐释学研究院招标课题（CSY-2021-YA-01）; 国家社科基金重大项目“当代西方伦理批评文献的整理、翻译与研究”（19ZDA292）

Misplaced Identity and Ethical Choice in Bernard Shaw's Too True to Be Good

Liu Maosheng

Published:2021-08-29
About author:Liu Maosheng is a “Yushan Outstanding Scholar” and Professor of English at the Faculty of English Language and Culture, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (Guangzhou 510420, China), specializing in British and American literature, Ethical Literary Criticism, and narratology. Email: liumaosheng2004@126.com
Supported by:
“The Compilation, Translation, and Research of Literatures on Contemporary Western Ethical Criticism” (19ZDA292) sponsored by the National Social Science Fund of China and the Institute of Hermeneutics, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (CSY-2021-YA-01)

摘要/Abstract

内容摘要： 萧伯纳戏剧《真相毕露》以“政治狂想曲”为副标题,暗示了该剧与政治有难以分割的联系。在以虚伪和欺诈为生存基础的社会环境中,剧中不同人物面临各自的伦理选择与身份选择。人物之间关系的反转,进而引发了伦理身份的变化与混乱,新的伦理身份使其陷入了生活与精神的伦理困境,这是当时英国社会伦理道德标准混乱的真实写照。怀有政治理想诉求的萧伯纳巧妙地设计了一条旷野中的“路”,为精神荒原上的人们提供了变革社会的希望,同时也表达了他对重建战后西方社会伦理秩序的渴望。

关键词: 萧伯纳, 《真相毕露》, 身份错位, 伦理选择

Abstract: The subtitle of Too True to be Good, “Political Rhapsody,” implies an inseparable connection between the play and politics. Living in a social environment, in which one's survival depends on hypocrisy and fraud, different characters in the play face their own ethical choices and identity choices. The transformation of the relationships among characters, thereby, leads to the changes and confusions of their ethical identities. Then, new ethical identities plunge them into an ethical dilemma both in life and spirit. This is a true portrayal of the chaos of the ethical and moral standards in the British society at that time. Motivated by the pursuit of his political ideal, Bernard Shaw skillfully designs a “path” in the wilderness, offering the people on the spiritual wasteland a hope of social reform and, at the same time, expressing his own strong desire to reconstruct the ethical order in the post-war Western society.

Key words: Bernard Shaw, Too True to be Good, misplaced identity, ethical choice

刘茂生. 《真相毕露》中的身份错位与伦理选择[J]. 外国文学研究, 2021, 43(4): 134-143.

Liu Maosheng. Misplaced Identity and Ethical Choice in Bernard Shaw's Too True to Be Good[J]. Foreign Literature Studies, 2021, 43(4): 134-143.

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