略探西方文学中的盲人形象及其文化意义

盲人形象在西方文学史上有特殊地位,他们具有“先知者”和“受惩者”两大原型意义。盲人形象也有特殊的文化内涵,构成了西方文学史上一种普遍而重要的文化现象,有学者称之为“瞽矇文化”。盲人形象的文化意义在近现代西方文学中仍得到了继承和发展,具有了揭示人性深度和人生荒诞的新意义。

The Blind Person Image That is Slightly Visited in Western Literature and Culture Meaning

Blind person image has special status in the history of western literature,it has"prophet person" and two major prototype meanings " person who punish ".Blind person image has special cultural intension too,forming western literature history one general but important culture phenomenon,the scholar calls that " Gu's Meng culture ".The cultural meaning of blind person's image has been still inherited and developed in western literature of modern times,has the depth of human nature and fantastic new meaning in life of announcing.