“SYMBIOSIS” IN THE WASTELAND — ON THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF ANDROGYNY IN THE CEMENT GARDEN

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Asiatic-IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI:10.54513/joell.2023.10103

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Abstract

The Cement Garden is Ian McEwan’s first novella, which contains a number of themes. This paper focuses on the analysis of the “masculinity” emanated from the female character Julie and the “femininity” implied by the male character Jack in this work through the application of the “androgyny” theory mainly based on Virginia Woolf. It further illustrates that McEwan tries to maintain the psychological gender balance in the moral wasteland by shaping characters with androgynous characteristics. In the social survival structure, men and women are mutually complementary and dialectically integrated. Only by overcoming their respective onesided bias and self-sufficiency, can they achieve a perfect combination of masculinity advocating facts, rationality and logic and femininity rich in imagination, emotion and intuition. Its highest ideal is to pursue a “symbiosis” state of “androgyny” and “bisexual harmony” of psychological gender.

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荒地中的“共生”——论水泥花园中的雌雄同体意识

《水泥花园》是伊恩·麦克尤恩的第一部中篇小说，它包含了许多主题。本文主要运用以弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫为代表的“雌雄同体”理论，分析这部作品中女性角色朱莉所散发的“男性气质”和男性角色杰克所暗示的“女性气质”。这进一步说明麦克尤恩试图通过塑造具有雌雄同性特征的人物来维持道德荒原中的心理性别平衡。在社会生存结构中，男女互为补充，辩证结合。只有克服各自的片面偏见和自我满足，才能实现崇尚事实、理性和逻辑的男性气质与富有想象力、情感和直觉的女性气质的完美结合。其最高理想是追求一种心理性别的“雌雄同体”与“双性和谐”的“共生”状态。

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