出走与回归：《罗慕拉》中的身份焦虑与重建
Leaving and Returning: Identity Anxiety and Reconstruction in Romola

身份研究一直是西方文论的关键词之一，小说《罗慕拉》中，乔治？艾略特通过描写同名女主人公罗慕拉的两次出走与回归，诉说个体在历史变革洪流中产生的身份焦虑与认同危机。《罗慕拉》强调社会环境对个体身份认同的影响，并通过构建社会身份认同重新塑造个体存在价值，完成女主人公罗慕拉两次回归后的个人成长。这种回归不仅象征着罗慕拉自我意识的逐步完善，更反映出艾略特立足于同情感与责任的伦理观，以缓解个体步入现代社会后的矛盾与冲突。
Identity study has been one of the key words in the 21st century western literature. In the novel Romola, George Eliot describes the identity anxiety and identity crisis of an individual in the tor-rent of historical change by depicting the eponymous heroine Romola’s two departures and re-turns. Romola emphasizes the impact of the social environment on individual identity, and re-shapes the value of individual existence through the construction of social identity, completing the personal growth of the heroine Romola after her two returns. This return not only symbolizes the gradual improvement of Romola’s self-consciousness, but also reflects Eliot’s ethical outlook based on the sense of empathy and responsibility in order to alleviate the contradictions and conflicts of the individual after entering the modern society.