Pass Olivia McNeely
University College of Tulane, Biloxi, MS 39531, USA.
J Med Humanit. 2006 Summer;27(2):117-24. doi: 10.1007/s10912-006-9010-0.
This paper elucidates the structure of Toni Morrison's novel, Beloved, using the framework of human emotions in response to grieving and death as developed by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross. Through her studies of terminally ill patients, Kubler-Ross identified five stages when approaching death: denial and isolation, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. These stages accurately fill the process that the character Sethe experiences in the novel as she learns to accept her daughter's death.
本文运用伊丽莎白·库伯勒-罗斯提出的人类对悲伤和死亡的情感反应框架，阐释了托妮·莫里森的小说《宠儿》的结构。通过对绝症患者的研究，库伯勒-罗斯确定了面对死亡时的五个阶段：否认与隔离、愤怒、讨价还价、抑郁和接受。这些阶段准确地描绘了小说人物塞丝在学会接受女儿死亡的过程中所经历的历程。
