摘要美国黑人女作家托尼•莫里森在其小说《宠儿》中描述了一位女性黑奴赛斯在杀害亲生女儿十八年后，遇到女儿鬼魂，并与鬼魂生活在一起的故事。本文简要分析《宠儿》的奴隶制历史社会背景，通过赛斯对杀婴事件回顾的片段和言语用词，基于心理学“自我”的定义和特点，本文分类探究赛斯对杀婴行为自身的见解和感受，包括其对杀婴事件的肯定、怀疑、困惑等诸多矛盾情绪，解释其精神扭曲的状态，同时结合赛斯本身和周围环境的相处情况以及黑奴对自身文化的矛盾，分析赛斯同时作为女性和黑奴的身份时找寻“自我”的迷茫和无助。25282
关键词  找寻自我  迷茫  无助  黑奴
毕业论文外文摘要
Title  The Confusion of Female Slaves’ Finding Self from Sethe’s Infanticide
Abstract
The American black woman writer Toni Morrison describes a story where Sethe, a female negro, lives with her dead daughter’s soul after 18 years when her daughter was killed by Sethe. This paper first briefly introduces the social background of slavery. It analyzes one of the main characters—Sethe’s views and feelings on infanticide based on “self” theories in psychology according to her fragmentary memories and words on baby killing, including her certainty, doubt, confusion and so on, which can also explain Sethe’s perverted mind. Combined with the relationship between Sethe and surroundings and negroes’ own contradiction of culture, this paper proves Sethe feels confused and helpless in the road of finding self as a female negro.
Keywords  finding self    confusion  helplessness  negro
Table of Contents
1    Introduction    1
2    Literature Review    2
2.1        Background of Slavery    2
2.2        On Sethe    3
2.3        On "Self"    4
2.3.1   Definition of "Self"    4
2.3.2   Relationship between "Self" and Environment    4
2.3.3   Ways to Find "Self"    5
3    Analysis and Discussion    6
3.1        Sethe's Self    6
3.2        Sethe’s Contradiction and Helplessness of Finding Self    6
3.2.1      Certainty of Infanticide    6
3.2.2      Doubt of Infanticide    7
3.2.3      Contradiction of Finding Self    9
3.2.4      Maternal Significance in Finding Self    11
Conclusion    12
Acknowlegements    13
References    14
1 Introduction
Blacks or blacks’ life is a common theme in the area of literature. Black slaves are a special group of the black, and they are always maliciously called “negro” by slave owners. “Negro” is a synonym of “black slave” or “black ghost”. During the period of slavery, negroes suffer a lot, not only in body but also in mind. Many scholars have done researches on negroes’ life. They mainly analyze how and why negroes, as a group, are treated as animals without any freedom.
Toni Morrison, the writer of Beloved, is an American novelist, editor, and professor. Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, richly detailed characters and lively imagination. Her works are mainly about the lives of American negroes, including The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, Sula, Tar Baby and so on. Looking for “self” is one of the most important themes of Toni Morrison’s novels. 从赛斯的杀婴事件看女性黑奴找寻自我的迷茫:http://www.youerw.com/yingyu/lunwen_18975.html