结构主义对《荆棘鸟》生命意识的阐释

运用结构主义叙事分析方法，阐述《荆棘鸟》内容的存在形态，思想它的生命意识与哲理意蕴：人的历史在一定程度上就是他的压抑史，无拘无束的满足生命需求的原则不可避免地会与自然环境和人的环境发生冲突，因此，在人性发展的意识范围内和它所创造的世界范围内的任何自由，都是要以牺牲欲望的充分满足为代价的。

a Structural Analysis of Consciousness of Ideal Life in The Thorn Birds

At the threshold of the new century, foreign literature study has reached a new stage.With the employment of new research methods in this article, through a detailed illustration of the structural narration in The Thorn Bird, the author attempts to give profound thought to one aspect of the theme: to human consciousness of ideal life . Life, to some extent, is a process of inhibition. The ideal human desires submit to the reality. Any freedom in the development of human nature and its corresponding world is simply derivative and compromise one which sacrifices full satisfaction of human desires.