【摘要】 本文围绕A.S.拜厄特的小说《静物》中女主人公斯蒂芬尼·波特的"意外"死亡情节,探讨作家蕴含其中的对女性自处问题的思考。文章指出,斯蒂芬尼作为上世纪50年代的知识女性,虽有着清醒的自我意识和人生理想,但是在当时女性"回归家庭"的社会思潮中,她一面遵循传统女性规范牺牲自我,一面又默默忍受失去自我的煎熬,直至一个"意外"夺走她年轻的生命。作家借斯蒂芬尼英年早逝的悲剧,不但揭露了当时英国性别意识形态对女性自我发展的扼杀,还表达了她对社会转型期一些知识女性由于自身性格缺陷,无力在传统身份与现代自我发展之间的冲突中突围、最终导致悲剧人生的反思。更多还原

【Abstract】 Centered on the protagonist Stephanie Potter’s death in A. S. Byatt’s novel Still Life, this paper explores the author’s reflection upon intellectual women’s existential situation in 1950 s Britain. It argues that Stephanie, despite her self-consciousness and vision of an ideal life, conforms to traditional female roles in the prevailing "womenback-home" trend and therefore suffers bitterly from loss of self and disillusionment with life. Her "accidental" premature death not only symbolizes oppression of women at the level of gender ideology, but also dramatizes Byatt’s criticism of some women’s personal flaws that partly explain their tragic lives deprived of power to resolve the conflict between traditional roles and modern self during social transformation.更多还原