An Analysis of the Gypsy Figures and the Cultural Rebellion in George Eliot’s Works
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摘要: 乔治·艾略特在其作品中塑造了一批与众不同的吉卜赛人形象,并借他们表达了强烈的文化叛逆意识。艾略特作品对神秘的吉卜赛文化进行了揭秘,还表现出对西方主流社会对其丑化的不认同态度,揭示了造成19世纪吉卜赛人生存困境的社会根源。艾略特作品让吉卜赛人成为非主流价值观的代言人,他们的存在使社会规范本身都有遭质疑的意味。此外,艾略特作品对吉卜赛形象的塑造中表现出了道德理想主义色彩,体现了作家本人不同于传统思维的种族观。通过吉卜赛人形象,艾略特作品挑战了维多利亚时代的传统价值观,产生了从内部捣毁霸权文化的效果。Abstract: George Eliot has created a bunch of distinctive Gypsy figures through whom the strong sense of cultural subversion of her works has been manifested. Apart from the vivid description of the mysterious Gypsy customs, Eliot’s literary works have also showed counterview to the mainstream society’s demonizing of Gypsy culture, meanwhile, revealing the social causes of the predicament of the gypsies in the nineteenth century. The gypsies are the carrier of the subversive thoughts in Eliot’s works, and the existence of the gypsies becomes the challenge against western unjust social norms. In addition, moral idealism has been evinced in the characterization of Gypsy figures in Eliot’s works, reflecting the writer’s strong rebellious consciousness in her view of race. The Gypsy figures in Eliot’s works act as a defiance to the Victorian social values, destroying the cultural hegemony internally.
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Key words:
- George Eliot /
- Gypsy /
- race
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