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摘 要《恩惠》是著名的美国非裔黑人女作家托尼•莫里森的第九部小说，小说描绘了17 世纪末期的北美大陆奴隶制时期女性的生存状况。本文采用文本细读法，通过人物的行为和语言分析《恩惠》中主要女性人物的自卑心理、自我意识、爱以及她们的不同结局。面对残忍的奴隶制她们内心的情感、思想不同，命运结局也不同。这一点启示后人，特别是当代女性，只有独立自信才能拥有真正的幸福，深入女性的内心，能够帮助读者更好的理解作者莫里森对奴隶制的憎恶，对女性地位的关注。40705
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Abstract A Mercy is the famous American African black female writer Toni Morrison's novel, 9, it tells a story about slavery period of women's living conditions on North America in the late 17th century. This article uses the method of close reading, through the analysis of the behavior and the language character A Mercy in the main characters of :inferiority mentality, self-awareness, love, and their different endings. Facing the slavery their feelings and thoughts in their deep heart have similarities and distinctions. This leads to their different endings. This give revelation to later generations, especially the contemporary female, only independent self-confidence have true happiness, thorough women heart is a good way to help readers understand the hatred of slavery of the author Morrison, and the attention to women's status.
Key words: A Mercy; Toni Morrison; psychological analysis; slavery
Psychological Analysis of Female Characters in A Mercy
Contents
摘 要 1
Abstract 2
I. Introduction 3
II. The Psychological Analysis of the Inferiority in A Mercy 5
2.1 The Inferiority of Florens.5
2.2 The Inferiority of Lina6
2.3 The Inferiority of Rebekka6
2.4 The Inferiority of Sorrow7
III. The Psychological Analysis of the Self-awareness in A Mercy 8
3.1 The Self-awareness of Florens8
3.2 The Self-awareness of Lina9
3.3 The Self-awareness of Rebekka9
3.4The Self-awareness of Sorrow:. 9
IV. The Psychological Analysis of the Love in A Mercy10
4.1 The Love of Florens11
4.2 The love of the other women13
V. Conclusion.13
Bibliography 15
Acknowledgements 16
I. Introduction
Toni Morrison (born Chloe Anthony Wofford on February 18, 1931) is a Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, editor, and professor. Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed characters. Among her best known novels are The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon and Beloved. She also was commissioned to write the libretto for a new opera, Margaret Garner, first performed in 2005. “Her latest novel A Mercy was first published in 2008” (Masters, Alexandra 201). It is Toni Morrison’s 9th and latest novel.
A Mercy reveals what lies beneath the surface of slavery in early America. It is both the story of mothers and daughters and the story of a primitive America. It made the New York Times Book Review list of “10 Best Books of 2008” as chosen by the paper's editors.
Florens, a slave, lives and works on Jacob Vaark’s rural New York farm. Lina, a Native American and fellow laborer on the Vaark farm, relates in a parallel narrative how she became one of a handful of survivors of a smallpox plague that destroyed her tribe. Vaark’s wife Rebekkah describes leaving England on a ship for the new world to be married to a man she has never seen. The deaths of their subsequent children are devastating, and Vaark accepts a young Florens from a debtor in the hopes that this new addition to the farm will help alleviate Rebekkah’s loneliness. Vaark, himself an orphan and poorhouse survivor, describes his journeys from New York to Maryland and Virginia, commenting on the role of religion in the culture of the different colonies, along with their attitudes toward slavery.