《蝇王》的现代性启示——人性的自赎英语.doc

《蝇王》的现代性启示 摘 要 英国当代作家威廉戈尔丁的小说《蝇王》是一部探索人性的哲理性小说。戈尔丁通过自己的作品揭示人性中邪恶的一面，帮助人类面对自己心灵深处的黑暗，作为其代表作，《蝇王》正是在这种思想指导下创作而成。本文通过剖析文本中三个典型人物的悲剧命运，反映出一个现存的社会问题——青少年犯罪。然后，本文从社会环境和青少年自身素质两方面去追溯造成文明社会中这一现象的根源，引申出遏制其蔓延的必要性。进一步提出了预防和解决青少年犯罪问题的具体措施，从而探讨了青少年犯罪的遏制如何体现人性的自赎。通过阐述人性的自赎揭示其对人类自身发展和社会进步具有的现代意义。 关键词:蝇王悲剧命运；青少年犯罪；人性的自赎 Key words：tragic fate; uvenile delinquency; humanity self-salvation  Contents 摘 要 I Abstract II 1. Introduction 1 2. The Tragic Vein of Lord of the Flies 1 2.1 Analysis of Simon 1 2.2 Piggy’s Tragedy 2 2.3 Dialectical Tragedy of Jack 3 2.4 The Conflict between Civilization and Savagery 3 3. Factors Attributed to the Tragedy— Juvenile Delinquency 4 3.1 Blame of the Society 4 3.1.1 Influence of the War 4 3.1.2 Poor Juvenile Justice System 5 3.1.3 Family Environment and Education 5 3.2 Psychological Problems of Adolescents 6 3.2.1 “Ostrich” Psychological 6 3.2.2 Adolescent Rebellion 6 3.2.3 Material Desires 7 4. Measures to Achieve Salvation 8 4.1 Changes of the External Factors 8 4.1.1 Eradication of the War 8 4.1.2 Restructure of the Juvenile Justice System 9 4.1.3 Enhancement of Adolescents’ Moral Education 10 4.2 Improvement of the Inherent Factors 10 4.2.1 Self-restraint 10 4.2.2 Self-examination 11 5. Modernity Significance of Humanity Self-salvation 11 5.1 Promotion for Human’s Development 12 5.2 Social Evolution 12 6. Conclusion 13 References 15 Acknowledgments 16  1. Introduction William Golding sets his novel Lord of the Flies at a time when Europe was in the midst of nuclear destruction. Lord of the Flies is a story happened in the Second World War which is imaged by the writer himself. A cloud of children was trapped on a desert island because of the air crash when they retreated in the war. The living condition is terrible and there is no adult. These children began their life on the island without civilization. This book not only portrays the ugly head of the wild boar,