摘 要
本论文旨在通过成长小说的视角对托妮•莫里森的处女作小说《最蓝的眼睛》中所描绘的两位黑人小女孩佩克拉和克劳蒂亚在成长中所受到的家庭和社区价值观的作用进行略论比较，来深入研讨小说中的成长主题，即家庭价值观以及社区价值观对黑人女孩的成长所起到的决定性影响。
首先，论文从小说中所刻画的家庭环境，家庭教育和来自父母亲以及兄弟姐妹的作用几方面来略论对比家庭价值观对佩克拉和克劳蒂亚成长的作用。其次，再分别从白人社区价值观以及黑人社区价值观两方面来系统地略论社区中存在的内化种族主义对两位小女孩,特别是佩克拉成长的伤害。最后，论文揭示出正是由于在成长阶段受到了不同的来自家庭和社区的教育和作用，导致了佩克拉和克劳蒂亚在成长中走向两种截然不同命运，一个成为了牺牲品，一个成为了幸存者，并最终成长为成熟的女性。从而深刻理解家庭和社区价值观的作用对黑人女孩成长的重要性，并体会处于社会边缘的黑人少女成长的艰难，领悟作者对黑人青少年及黑人民族未来命运的深切关注。
关键词:《最蓝的眼睛》，成长主题，英语论文范文，家庭价值观，英语论文网站，社区价值观
ABSTRACT
This thesis focuses on the initiation theme in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, namely the impact of family and community values on black girls’ growth.
Based on the different impact of familial and communal values on the two main characters, Pecola and Claudia’s growth, the main analysis of the paper will be divided into two parts. The first part will analyze the different family backgrounds of the two girls through comparing the basic conditions, parental love and sisterhood. The second part will reveal the damaging impact of internalized racism on the growth of the two girls, particularly on the growth of Pecola through analyzing the dominant white community values and internalized black community values. Eventually, the thesis proves that different family and community values have greatly affected the growth of Pecola and Claudia and brought about their different destinies: whereas one becomes a victim, the other becomes a survivor, a messenger of hope.
The significance of this thesis is to emphasize the crucial roles family and community play in the black girls’ growing up. Besides, the thesis is helpful in understanding the hardship of black girlhood, a marginal group living in extreme complex and poor environments and in comprehending the writer’s concern for the black adolescent as well as the black nation’s future.
Key words: The Bluest Eye, initiation theme, family values, community values |
