个人与社会的博弈——论康拉德《胜利》中海斯特的角色转换-the game between individual and society - on the role transformation of hester in conrads victory.docx

Descriptive Abstract in Chinese望的寄托。在结论部分，文章认为《胜利》中海斯特的一生短暂而痛苦，这样的局面归根结底是由于自我个性与社会期望之间的冲突无法达成融合。主人公最终选择用自 焚的方式表明自己灵魂的“苏醒”，向世人宣告了他在精神与人格上的“胜利”。他在 角色形象上的变化不仅揭示了英国社会转型时期的人们普遍面临精神上的困境，也从 侧面折射出康拉德对社会道德与主流价值观念提出的质疑与思考，同时也表达了他对 社会道德发展前景的一种乐观期望，以及对美好人性的向往和呼唤。关键词： 约瑟夫·康拉德；《胜利》；海斯特；角色转换AbstractJoseph Conrad (1857-1924) is a pioneer in contemporary fiction of England, standing as the explorer of human mind. Victory, one of his later works, mainly develops around the hero Axel Heyst?s lifetime in which he drifts aimlessly and seemly suffers repeatedly. Although uniquely emphasized depiction on love story appeared in this work has attracted attentions from scholars extensively, this fiction, as a whole, discusses matters of social problems all the same. He combines character?s courting process of love with spiritual development journey in human nature so as to endow his novels with a significance to reveal social problems. The early twentieth century has witnessed the social transformation of England, in which social unrests have brought people the shocks between culture and human nature that make everyone suffers the spiritual repercussions as a result of social conversion. Hence, in Victory, the book wrote by Conrad, we take the character?s role transformation of this work as the research object to pry about Britain?s social condition and people?s mental status during Edwardian period.The word “role” originates from drama, which is introduced firstly into social psychology by G. H. Mead, the famous American socialist, social psychologist and philosopher. The role theory is the theory to research the rules on individuals? role-playing and behaviors in their interactive process. A person?s role-playing is a gradually developed and formed process, which is influenced by several factors such as their living environment, role expectations as well as the regulations and requirements, etc. And in a very high frequency, an individual will change his roles more or less, that is, to en