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The Lottery英文赏析
The short story Lottery is the classic work of famous American novelist Shirly
Jackson.It narrators the story about the people of a small town held an
aniversal activity of lottery,and the person who got the lottery would be hit to
death by stones for the sake of havrest of the following year.The narrator
centers on the actions and simple language of each town people from an
obejective perspective to reflect the blind obedience,less of rationality and
cruel coldness of human nature of the whole town people.
The essay will focus on the analysis of the characters to dig up the deep
themes of the short story.The difference between The Lottery and other
stories is that there is no clear clue to define who are the leading roles and who
are the supporting roles.In other words,the whole town people is the a
complete protagonist.
In the story,the narrator shows us the whole process the lottery activity
just like a professional reporter,she described each plot with calm attitude and
we could not see any personal feeling or expectation of the writer from any
character of the whole town people.In the small town,the activity of lottery
was presented by a man who was named Mr Summers,who had time and
energy to devote to the civic activities.He was a round-faced,jovial man and
he ran the coal business,and people were sorry for him,because he had no
children and his wife was a scold.
The name Summers has implied us the social status and infulences of Mr
Summers,he was the owner of the coal business and had power on the whole
town people.Every living summer,he gathered the people together and held
the lottery ceremony which cost one human being' life to keep the stupid
suspitious saying:
lottery in June,corn be heavy soon.The group of people like
Mr Summers had controls not only on the whold process of the lottery but also
the economic resources even destinies.The lottery was only a kind of ritual
which was used to blind their souls,transfer their disatisfy about the real life
and take out their anger on the much miserier person-the lottery winner.
The old man Mr Warner was the eldest person in the town who was
supposed to the wisdom in common sense,instead he was the representive of
the most fatuous and cruel human beings.He has been in the lottery for
77years qutoed what he said:
"Seventy-seventh year I been in the Lottery"as
he went through the crowd :
Seventy seven times.We can understand from a
different view:
He has been taking part in killing people to death for more than
seventy times.The luckiness of he could escape from each
life-risk in the lottery has been transformed into huge zealous passion to
keep this convention and defend anyone who even thought about abandoning
this ritual in head.
The lottery tradition has been kept year by year,there was a human being
was hit to death year by year,until this year when the narrator reported to us,
we still could not see a sign that it would be changed.
So the lottery winner Tessie in this year was just like everyone in the
past,she was the victim for others to keep their blind ritual.We don't know why
the writer chose Tessie to be the victim.There was no any singal which implies
Tessie would be the one who got the lottery.She was like everyone who came
for this ceremony as a participant and a vindicator as well.
<抽彩>讲述美国的一个普通小村镇的古老传统仪式:
村民们每年举行一次抽彩活动,抽出中彩者用乱石打死来保证收获.雪利·杰克逊用独特的风格揭示人性的残忍、不仁道和社会对个体的迫害,因此引起许多争议.本文分析<抽彩>的冲突、背景、人物塑造、象征和讽刺手法.
Abstract:
The story"The Lottery"tells the traditional annual lottery ritual in an
ordinary American town,but the winner will be scrailced for harvest.Shidey
Jackson employs her unique style to convey the inhumanity,cruelty of people
and victimization of individual,and wins her many fames and criticisms.The
paper appreciates literary devices such as
conflicts,sening,characterization,symbolism and irony in the"The lottery".
the lottery译为《摸彩》,说的俗一点就是抽彩票,但其性质不同,结果也不同。
这篇文章相当复杂,不是它太难懂而是里面的事情实在是与中国的文化没有一点交接,用中国话说就是封建迷信,还是相当封建。
我大概读了3遍以后,差不多看懂说什么了,又去查查资料才了解实质,写作背景就是反乌托邦,这个反乌
托邦更是相当复杂,有兴趣自己去查吧,然后继续这个作者是个美国人叫Shirley Jackson。
据说这个人相当强悍,很会讲故事,被人称为天才小说家,而且她讲的故事都很幽默,而且不经意之间就流露出来,要人们心神领会,怪不得读着很有难度,之后就是她的小说结尾往往很令人意外,这个确实是。
自这篇文章出版以后她的粉丝就是越来越多了,还被誉为“作家的作家”,因为有很多作家都崇拜她,果然很无敌。
文章开头就埋伏笔设悬念,从一帮小小孩子堆石子开始引出抽奖的整个过程,其中细节描写相当入微。
例如,故事里的人物姓名,就具有丰富的象征。
负责摸彩活动的萨莫思(Summers),英文意思是“夏天”,其复数形式暗指年头或曰时光的流逝;他的助手格瑞午思(Graves),则意为“坟墓”,这既暗示了每次摸彩的结果都是某一个人的死亡,也暗示了摸彩活动本身最终应该的去处——这应当也是作者本人的意图吧。
德拉克柔(Delacroix)这个名字的原意为“十字架的”;可是,作者在故事的开头处就专门说明,村民们总是把这个名字念错,并且完全忘记了正确的读法。
这其中的深意自然是关涉基督教的——村民们早就无法正确理解基督教的真正教义了。
此外,那个摇摇欲坠的三条腿的破凳子,被看作是暗指失去权威的三位一体的神权。
那个破旧的黑色盒子,则既象征着死亡,也象征传统的陈旧以及村民对传统的混沌与盲从;此外,黑盒子是用多年以前的“老盒子的残余木板”拼成的,这个细节也暗示了摸彩活动所代表的传统已经变质并远远落后于时代。
真是相当的复杂。
在所有的象征和寓意里,含意最丰富的还是故事的情节——作为仪式的杀人。
《摸彩》在故事开始时,描写了一幅伊甸园般的美好景色,村民们也相处和平。
但是在故事的结尾,人们读到的却是一场与美好环境格格不入的杀戮。
尤其令人发指的是,这是一次和平时期亲人和邻里间的残杀。
《圣经》里描写的人类第一次杀人,就发生在兄弟之间。
那是人类始祖亚当和夏娃的长子该隐对兄弟亚伯的残杀。
值得注意的是,上帝接下来的警告是,如果有人因此想杀该隐,则“必遭报七倍”,可见杀人罪之严重。
然而,如此严厉的警告依然没有使人类停止杀戮。
整个人类历史记满了人与人的自相残杀。
死去的人就像替罪羊,或是