梅森与迪克森和哈姆雷特

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Orbit (Cambridge) Pub Date : 2014-08-29 DOI:10.7766/ORBIT.V2.2.57

Celia M. Wallhead

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摘要

尽管《梅森与迪克森》中并没有将天文学家主角查尔斯·梅森与莎士比亚名著中的同名主人公进行明确的比较，但小说中无可争议地提到了莎士比亚的戏剧。梅森被赋予了反映哈姆雷特的美德和缺点的品质:他是一个领导者，一个受过教育和机智的人，尽管他的形而上的渴望诱使他走向疯狂和自杀。丧亲之痛、失恋、鬼影缠身、优柔寡断、甚至怯懦、野心受挫，都让他背负着深深的忧郁。

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Mason & Dixon and Hamlet

Although there is no explicit comparison in Mason & Dixon of the astronomer protagonist Charles Mason to the eponymous hero of Shakespeare's masterpiece, indisputable references to the play are to be found in the novel. Mason is endowed with qualities which mirror Hamlet's virtues and vices: he is a leader and a man of education and wit, though his metaphysical longings entice him towards madness and suicide. He is emburdened with a deep melancholy stemming from bereavement, loss of love, the hauntings of a ghost, indecision, even cowardice and frustrated ambition.

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Orbit (Cambridge) Arts and Humanities-Literature and Literary Theory

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0.20

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15 weeks

期刊介绍： Orbit: Writing Around Pynchon is a journal that publishes high quality, rigorously reviewed and innovative scholarly material on the works of Thomas Pynchon, related authors and adjacent fields in 20th- and 21st-century literature. We publish special and general issues in a rolling format, which brings together a traditional journal article style with the latest publishing technology to ensure faster, yet prestigious, publication for authors.