殖民语境中的理性效用——论《莫罗博士岛》的殖民主义批判

赫·乔·威尔斯在小说<莫罗博士岛>中,通过叙述者普伦狄克在荒岛上遭遇被莫罗博士实施了活体解剖的兽人,目睹和经历了代表文明和野蛮的"人"与"兽人"之间的界线从开始的清晰到最后消解的过程,辛辣地讽刺了西方殖民者所标榜的"理性"只是人身上的装饰,它遮掩了人性的丑陋本质,是殖民统治者奴役和驯化土著人的合理借口和统治工具,表达了他对欧洲殖民主义的怀疑和批判.

Colonialist Criticism on the Island of Dr.Moreau

In H.G.Wells's the Island of Dr.Moreau,the narrator Prendick encountered the beast folks vivisected by Dr.Moreau.He experienced how the border line between the civilized Man and savage beast folk turned from clearness to being erased at last.Wells satirized sharply the true nature of rationality advocated by Western colonialists,which was just a pretention in the face of man's animal heritage,and disguised the ugly hidden nature of the human.In the text,Wells explicitly criticized the Western colonialists t...