Class, Gender, Colonization——Interpretation of Moll Franders from three perspectives
阶级、性别、殖民——《摩尔·弗兰德斯》的三重解读

摘要

《摩尔·弗兰德斯》是英国现实主义小说的奠基人丹尼尔·笛福的另一部杰作。小说以底层社会和边缘社会的女性摩尔·弗兰德斯为主人公，采用流浪汉小说的艺术手法，描写了女主人公的成长过程、社会经历和冒险经历，揭露了18世纪英国资本主义社会的拜金主义和黑暗现实。小说包含了三对边缘与中心的二元对立关系，分别是女性与男性、底层与上层、英国与殖民地，这三对关系的共同点是后者的繁荣建立在对前者的压迫和剥削之上。本文拟解析小说中这三对二元对立的关系，试图阐明英国启蒙时期社会边缘与中心之间不平等关系的社会根源，以及边缘对中心的消解作用。

Abstract

Moll Franders is another masterpiece written by Daniel Defoe, the founder of English realistic novel. The novel takes Moll Franders, a female in the underclass and marginal society, as the protagonist. By using the artistic techniques of tramp novels, this novel describes the heroine's growing up process, social experiences and adventure experiences, revealing the darkness under the prosperity of the civilized British capitalism society. Dark social reality was hidden in three dualistic relationships between the edges and the center which include women and men, underclass and upper-class, England and its colony. The three dualities have something in common, that is, the prosperity of the latter is based on the oppression and exploitation of the former. This paper intends to analyze the relationship between the three dualistic opposites in the novel and attempts to elucidate the social roots of the inequality in the Enlightenment period of England and the role of margins in the deconstruction of centers.