＂Araby＂: A Hero's Journey into Epiphany

《阿拉比》：一場英雄的頓悟之旅

許惠芬(Hui-fen Hsu)

heroism ； archetype ； modernist ； epiphany ； 英雄主義 ； 原型 ； 現代主義的 ； 頓悟

高雄師大學報：人文與藝術類

47期（2019 / 12 / 01）

43 - 58

英文

James Joyce's Dubliners serves as a looking glass to reveal the corruption and paralysis of Irish life in the early twentieth century. The third story in this book, ＂Araby＂ portrays an unnamed boy's imaginary romance, featuring the typical Joycean paralysis and epiphany. This study detects in it a mythological motif of ＂seek and find,＂ identifying the boy as an archetypal hero with the modernist sensitivity. The heroic pattern of leaving the old threshold, experiencing trials in an unknown land, and returning with a new consciousness finds a parodic expression in ＂Araby.＂ The contents of this study are divided into two parts. The first part explores the implication of heroism in ＂Araby,＂ the boy enacting the hero archetype and giving it an inward turn. The second part analyzes the boy's epiphany, his intuitive comprehension of reality echoing Zen awakening. The boy hero demonstrates a new facet of heroism that embraces interior scrutiny instead of physical valor. Placed in the mythic framework, ＂Araby＂ reconstitutes the meaning of heroism in the modern world.

詹姆士．喬伊斯的《都柏林人》如一面鏡子，揭露20世紀初愛爾蘭人腐朽停滯的生活樣態。《阿拉比》是此書的第三篇作品，描寫一個不知名男孩對愛情的幻想，故事中有喬伊斯作品一貫的主題：僵化及頓悟。本研究從神話的追尋與發現這個母題，探討此作品，分析男孩是一位具現代主義思想的神話英雄。跨越過去的門檻，來到未知的國度並經歷各種挑戰，而後帶著全新的意識返家—此英雄冒險模式，在《阿拉比》中，以顛覆傳統的方式再現。本研究內容分兩部份。第一部份探討《阿拉比》蘊含的英雄主義，男孩表現英雄原型的同時，給予內省的轉折。第二部份分析此男孩的頓悟，其直觀式體悟和禪宗的開悟相呼應。男孩呈現英雄的新風貌，以內在的探索取代肢體的矯健勇猛。在神話的框架中，《阿拉比》重新建構英雄主義在現代世界的意涵。

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