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Pudd’nhead Wilson
《傻瓜威尔逊》中人物形象分析
摘
要
i
Analysis of the Characters
1894
年出版的《傻瓜威尔
逊》是马克吐温晚年反映美国奴隶文化
的代表作之一
,
这部小说以美国南方奴隶制为背景，在
19
世纪
的美
国，
种族歧视是一个独特且尖锐的话题，
< br>作者通过对小说人物的刻画，
以其特有的讽刺，
批判了当
时美国社会根深蒂固的种族歧视政策和白
人至上主义。
本文着重
剖析了小说中的两个典型人物傻瓜威尔逊和女
奴罗克西，
在我看
来，
这看似不相关的两个人物有着深刻的文化联系，
在种族歧视
的社会背景下，
这两个人物深刻反映了美国社会中极端对
立的种
族矛盾。
本文将通过罗克西娜和威尔逊两人的肖像，
行为以及<
/p>
心理描写角度来分析，再现马克吐温以人道主义的立场
,
对残忍无情
的奴隶制和僵化堕落的南方种族文化深刻而又尖锐的批判
,
更重要的
是，反映出这部作品对后世的影
响和深刻教训，即，唤起人们对于人
权自由和平等的渴望和追求。
关键词：威尔逊
罗克西
奴隶制
种族歧视
ii
Abstract
Pudd’nhead
Wilson,
published
in
1894,
is
one
of
Mark
Twain’
s
representitive
works,
which
reflect
America
slave
culture.
The
novel is set in America southern 19
century,
slave
and
racial
discrimination
is
a
special
and
sharp
subject
in America. The author through the
depiction of characters,
with its
peculiar irony, criticizes the American society at
that time deep-rooted racial
discrimination policy and white
paper
emphatically
analyzed
two
typical
characters
of
the
novel
fool
Wilson
and
slave
my
opinion,
this
seemingly
unrelated
two
characters
has
a
profound
cultural
links,Under the
social background of racial discrimination,
the
two
figures
reflects
the
opposite
extremes
of
racial
conflicts in American article will
analyze Roxy
and Wilson from the point
of view of their portrait, behavior
and
psychological
reproducing Mark
Twain’
s deep and sharp
criticism to the ruthless southern
slavery and rigid fallen
racial culture
on humanistic view. What
’
s
more, I want to
reflect the influence
of this work and profound lessons for
later
generations,
that
is,
evoking
people
’
s
desire
and
ii
iii
pursuit of human rights, freedom and
equlity.
Key
words
：
Roxy;
Wilson;
Slavery;Southern
Racial
Discriminition
ii
iv
Contents
摘
要
...............
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i
Abstract
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...
iii
Introduction
...............
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1
Chapter
1
An Introduction to Mark
Twain and
Pudd’nhead Wilson.
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2
1.1 Introduction to Mark Twain
.
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2
1.2 Introduction to
Pudd’nhead Wilson
....................
3
Chapter 2
An
Introduction to Character Analysis
............
5
2.1 The Way of Character Analysis
.
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5
2.2 The Significance of
Character Analysis
................
7
Chapter 3
Analysis to The Main Characters in
Pudd’nhead Wilson
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12
3.1
Analysis to Roxy
.
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12
3.2 Analysis to Wilson
.
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14
Conclusion
...
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16
Bibliography <
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18
Acknowledgements
iii
B.A. Thesis
Introduction
Introduction
马克·
吐温的一系列以美国密西西比河流域文化为背景的小说
中，《傻瓜威尔逊》并不是最具代
表性的作品。然而，书中罗克西
娜这一人物形象以其独特的生理特征与文化意识引起了评
论界的西
方评论界的广泛关注。在这个以奴隶制经济为基础的名叫道森兰丁
的小镇里，奴隶首先是像猪狗一样有价值的商品，他们可以被主人
自由的买卖
。被买卖的命运从一开始就笼罩在小说主人公罗克西娜
和同伴们的生活之上，也正是由于
惧怕被卖到河的下游去，罗克西
娜才一手产生了调包的想法
.<
/p>
作者通过对小说人物的刻画，
以其特有
的
讽刺，批判了当时美国社会根深蒂固的种族歧视政策和白人至上
主义
.
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B.A. Thesis
Chapter 1 An
Introduction to Mark Twain and
Pudd
’
nhead
Wilson
.
Chapter
1
An
Introduction
to
Mark
Twain
and
Pudd
’
nhead
Wilson.
1.1 Introduction to Mark Twain
Mark
Twain
(pseudonym
of
Samuel
Langhorne
Clemens,1835-1910)
was
an
American
writer,
journalist
and
humorist, who won a
worldwide audience for his stories of the
youthful
adventures
of
Tom
Sawyer
and
Huckleberry
Finn.
Although he was not
rich, he was still regarded as one of the
most
famous
people
because
of
his
great
humorous
and
witty
and
fame.
He was honoured as Lincoln of literary history.
Helen
Keller once said , I like Mark
Twain . Who does not like him ?
Even
God
loves
him
,
provide
him
with
wisdom
and
paint
a
rainbow
of love and belief in his heart.
William Faulkner said that
Mark
Twain
was
the
first
real
American
writter
and
we
all
come
to inherit him. Mark
Twain was died in 1910 and buried at
Elmira,NewYork.
Mark
Twain,
American
founder
of
critical
realism,
the
world
famous
short
story
master,
went
through
the
development
process from
early American capitalism to imperialism, The
tone
of
his
works
also
turned
from
brisk
to
sarcastic
and
then
2
B.A. Thesis
Chapter 1 An Introduction
to Mark Twain and
Pudd
’
nhead
Wilson
.
to
pessimistic.
He
wrote
many
works
which
reflected
America's
social
phenomenon.
Mark
Twain
established
a
memorial
monument
in
both
history
of
America
literature
and
history
of
the
world.
As a
great spiritual wealth of mankind ,his works will
be
spreaded on earth forever.
1.2 Introduction to
Pudd
’
nhead
Wilson
Pudd
’
nhead
Wilson
is
written
by
Mark
Twain
in
tells
a
bizarre
story
made
by
man.
Female
black
slave
Roxy
only
has
sixteenth
black
ancestry,
her
son
has
only
one
over
thirty-two black descent. Although the
skin of her son is as
same as the white
man, he still will be treated as slaves for
his whole life. So Roxy plays a shrewd
changes her
own
son
,Toms,leeping
in
cradle
and
Thomas
`a
Becket,
the
white
race,
the
son
of
Driscoll.
As
a
result,
the
two
wrong-
identitied
children
grow
up
in
different
environment
not
belonging them. During the later long
23 years, Roxy
’
s son
becomes
young
master
of
the
house
while
the
real
master
becomes
black
grows
up
in
a
superior
environment,
unlearned,
also pick up a bad habit of gambling.
To pay his debts, he
dresses
as
a
girl
in
the
town
to
steale.
Finally,
he
is
discovered when he steals his
uncle
’
s money. He killed his
3
B.A. Thesis
Chapter 1 An Introduction to Mark Twain
and
Pudd
’
nhead
Wilson
.
uncle and flees at
night. At the last minute of the trial,
Wilson
find
the
truth
by
fingerprint.
The
two
children
don
’
t
go back to their own position until
Wilson distinguish them
with unique
dactylography.
The
style
the
work
telling
the
story
continue
the
American
humor pattern of
Mark Twain and it also has a distinctive
ideological significance of criticizing
southern racial and
cultural-
discrimination. He sharply criticized the cruel
and
savage slavary.
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B.A. Thesis
Chapter 2 An Introduction to Character
Analysis
Chapter 2
An Analysis of Main Characters in
Pudd
’
nhead
Wilson
2.1 The
Portrait Analysis of Roxy and Wilson
At
the begining chapter of the book, Mark Twain uses
many
words
to
describe
Roxy.
From
Roxy's
manner
of
speech,
a
stranger
would
have
expected
her
to
be
black,
but
she
was
not.
Only one sixteenth of
her was black, and that sixteenth did
not show. She was of majestic form and
stature, her attitudes
were imposing
and statuesque, and her gestures and movements
distinguished
by
a
noble
and
stately
grace.
Her
complexion
was
very
fair,
with
the
rosy
glow
of
vigorous
health
in
her
cheeks,
her face was full of
character and expression, her eyes were
brown and liquid, and she had a heavy
suit of fine soft hair
which was also
brown, but the fact was not apparent because
her
head
was
bound
about
with
a
checkered
handkerchief
and
the
hair
was
concealed
under
it.
Her
face
was
shapely,
intelligent,
and
comely--even
beautiful.
She
had
an
easy,
independent
carriage--when she was among her own
caste--and a high and
enough
where white people were.
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B.A. Thesis
Chapter 2 An Introduction to Character
Analysis
From the first sentence, From
Roxy's manner of speech, a
stranger
would have expected her to be black, we can get
the
information that the author
suggests the difference between
black
and white. Tone of voice. However only sixteenth
of her
was
black,
and
that
sixteenth
did
not
show.
What
’
s
more,
with
later
words about Roxy, we know that Roxy is as same as
white
people
except
her
tone
of
voice
and
hei
sixteenth
black
lineage
even she is more
beautiful than others. As a very typical,
slaves of oppression by white culture.
Her life is full of
contradictions.
She
is
always
in
a
natural
crisis
She looks
different with the white, but she was born a
slave.
Her
skin
is
white
but
her
words
are
vulgar;
she
has
thick
soft
hair
but
wears
the
humble
clothes;
She
is
very
deferential to
white
masters but very bossy to those black workers. In
other
words, Roxy , as a black people,
agrees with and also accept
the racial
attitudes and slavery. She agrees that the status
of
white
people
is
naturally
higher
than
black.
So
sad
she
is.
However,
as
a
woman
slave,
she
has
an
attractive
appearance.
It is doomed
that she is not only a slave with economic value
but
also
a
tool
available
for
white
master
to
vent
their
sexual
desire.
The
novel
implys
to
readers
when
refer
to
Tom
that
she
once
is
the
plaything
of
a
another
prominent
noble
race.
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B.A. Thesis
Chapter 2 An Introduction to Character
Analysis
Unfortunately, the white
master who makes her to be pregnant
is
only interested in her body. Also this novel
darkly implys
that Roxy becomes the
focused target of her new master when
she is sold down the river. And then
the hostess retaliates
her
unscrupulously
nearly
killed
her.
Thus
it
can
be
seen,
what
her
pretty
appearance
takes
her
is
just
a
string
of
misfortune.
Since that she is a slave. Meanwhile,
we can get that under
the
slavery
socal
background,
slaves
have
no
any
status.
They
are
treated
without
dignity,
just
like
dogs. The
author,
with
its
peculiar irony, criticizes the American society at
that
time
deep-rooted
racial
discrimination
policy,
white
supremacist and slavery.
2.2 The Behavior Analysis of Roxy and
Wilson
In
order
to
distinguish
herself
and
those
black
slaves
slightly,
Roxy goes
to
church
like
white
people
and
stresses
repeatedly in front
of her son that his father have the same
noble
lineage
with
the
judge.
Thus
it
can
be
seen,
in
the
very
bottom
of
her
heart,
Roxy
feels
deeply
fear
about
the
terrible
slave society
system. But on the other hand , she attaches
herself to it willingly. This is the
most sad place for Roxy
as a slavery.
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