《名利场》中的叙事者是谁

有评论者将《名利场》叙事者冷嘲热讽的话语方式归咎为作者萨克雷对人类的厌恶和愤世嫉俗。但本文将质疑这一结论,并进一步探讨谁是小说的叙事者、叙事者的立场及其复杂的心态。小说作者立志于揭露人的虚伪和愚蠢,表象的欺骗性,特权阶层的腐朽,但同时他又不得不承认人世间的种种悖论:最温柔的天使亦难逃自私之嫌,最忠贞的守候换来的结果兴许并不那么值得,行为最不道德的人未必遭到最严厉的报应。萨克雷的整个人生观都经过反讽的过滤,而反讽在这部小说中无处不在。通过解读叙事者的存在来审视小说作者与小说中的各色人物、小说最初的读者、作者身处的社会历史环境的关系。

Who is the Narrator of Vanity Fair

The skeptical mode of the discourse of Vanity Fair had been attributed to the novelist＆#39;s misanthropy and cynicism . This conclusion is to be questioned by the paper before it discusses who the narrator is and the ambivalence implicated in the stances he adopts .Committed to exposing hypocrisy , folly, deception of appearance and corruption of the privileged , the novelist had to recognize the paradoxes prevalent in human life： the tenderest angel is not free from suspicion of selfishness, a self-seeking adventurer talks brilliantly , the highest constancy has reward little worth it , and the least moral do not necessarily end up with the severest retribution .For laying bare contradictions no instrument is more appropriate than irony .Thackeray＆#39;s entire vision of life is filtered through irony and irony is pervasive in the novel .The paper aims to examine the presence of the narrator in relation to characters , the contemporary readership and socioeconomic environment .