题名

The Jew of Malta: Barabas's Loss of Subjectivity in the Game

并列篇名

《馬爾他之猶太人》:巴拉巴遊戲中之主體性淪喪

DOI

10.29950/JHKUM.200801.0018

作者

張登翰(Deng-Han Zhang)

关键词

巴拉巴 ; 迦達瑪 ; 遊戲 ; 主體性之喪失 ; Barabas ; Gadamar ; game ; loss of subjectivity

期刊名称

興國學報

卷期/出版年月

9期(2008 / 01 / 01)

页次

273 - 285

内容语文

英文

中文摘要

本文以詮釋學觀點,探討馬羅(Christopher Marlowe)所著《馬爾他之猶太人》(The Jew of Malta)中巴拉巴之角色刻劃。將巴拉巴描繪成權謀野心之輩,實誤解了馬基維利之《君王論》。巴拉巴對政治權力之取得和維持並無興趣;其嗜血傾向全然異於馬基維利「非關道德」之說,且全無道德可言;其耽於使陰耍詐,和馬基維利對和平的期望,形成強烈對比。巴拉巴對受害者無情玩弄,卻在「遊戲」中喪失其主體性。根據迦達瑪於《真理與方法》中所提「遊戲」之概念,巴拉巴主體性之喪失可分三方面討論:一、「遊戲」至上:他未能事先洞察危機,指出他在「遊戲」中缺乏主體性;二、「遊戲」對他的吸引:其嗜血傾向顯示遊戲往返來回之特性;三、「遊戲」之遊樂性:他對宗教的褻瀆,明顯有嘉年華之特性。

英文摘要

This paper presents a hermeneutic reading of the characterization of Barabas in The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe. The portrayal of Barabas as a Machiavellian stems from the general misunderstanding of The Prince, written by Niccolo de Bernardo Machiavelli (1469-1527). The dramatist ”misreads” The Prince in The Jew of Malta. Barabas takes no interest in attaining and maintaining political power; his blood-thirsty inclination, disagreeing totally with Machiavelli’s amorality (”beyond considerations of good and evil”), develops into sheer immorality; his playful indulgence in evil contrasts sharply with Machiavelli’s sincere hope for peace. Barabas ruthlessly plays with his victims but loses his subjectivity in the ”game.” In the light of the concept of ”game” proposed by Hans Georg Gadamar in Truth and Method, Barabas’s loss of subjectivity can be discussed in three aspects: (1) the supremacy of the game: his failure to recognize crises beforehand indicates his lack of subjectivity in his game; (2) the game’s attraction to him: his blood-thirsty inclination reveals the to-and-fro movement of the game; (3) the playfulness of the game: his profanation of religion is the most eminent carnivalization of The Prince.

主题分类 人文學 > 人文學綜合
社會科學 > 社會科學綜合
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