殖民体系下的白人受害者：《野草在歌唱》中托尼的精神困境
A White Victim of Colonial System: Analysis of Tony’s Mental Disorder in The Grass Is Singing

托尼？马斯顿作为《野草在歌唱》中的次要人物是在英国本土受过良好教育的白人男性青年代表。他既非典型的殖民者，又无法彻底共情被殖民者。其精神状态的变化，表现出殖民体系对白人个体的消极影响与该体系下白人的精神困境。托尼的精神失常映射出当时英国社会存在的问题：殖民体系和种族隔离的存在与二者不可分割使当时英国本土的思想进步受到限制，只有彻底改变殖民体系才能为培育真正的平等思想提供健康土壤。本文旨在通过托尼的命运走向和心理变化揭示莱辛对虚伪殖民理想的讽刺以及对殖民体系摧残白人精神世界的忧虑。
Tony Marston, a minor character in The Grass Is Singing, is a representative of the average young man who has been well educated in British in the novel. He is not a typical colonizer while he is unable to truly empathize with the colonized. The change of his mental state implies the negative impact and mental dilemma brought by the colonial system to the white. Tony’s mental disorder reflects the flaws of framework of British society at that time: the existence and inseparability of the colonial system and apartheid limited the progress of ideas in Britain, and only a radical alteration in the system could provide a healthy ground for true egalitarianism. This paper intends to reveal Lessing’s satire towards the false colonial ideal and her concern that the colonial system was destroying the spiritual world of the white through depicting Tony’s psychological changes and tragic fate.