Milady saw the trouble. She felt by intuition the flame of the opposiing passions which burned with the blood in the veins of the young fanatic. As a skillful general, seeing the enemy ready to surrender, marches toward him with a cry of victory, she rose, beautiful as an antique priestess, inspired like a Christi an virgin, her arms extended, her throat uncovered, her hair disheveled, holding with one hand her robe modestly drawn over her breast, her look illumined by that fire which had already created such disorder in the veins of the young Puritanm ….一位老谋深算的将军,同时也是基督圣女的化身。她就是米拉迪,大仲马笔下的一个传奇人物,出色的洞察力,放荡的心理及先发制人的特色刻画的栩栩如生。让人感觉米拉迪的恐怖。
一个人,无论她有多么骄纵,多么不可一世,在失败和死亡面前都可能低头,因为人是善变的动物。米拉迪当然也不例外。“Milady, pale as a corpse, endeavored to cry out ; but her swollen tongue could utter no more than a hoarse sound which had nothing human in it and resembled the rattle of a wild beast. Motionless against the dark tapestry, with her hair in disorder, she appeared like a horrid image of terror.”正是这种无言的刻画,把米拉迪那沉着,镇定的个性描写的淋漓尽致。虽然她的内心充满了恐惧,但作为一个女人,在生死关头仍然如此‘冷静’,真的很值得我们体味。
但在火枪手们审判米拉迪的罪行时,这个高傲的女人却发出了恐怖的尖叫。即使狡猾冷静如她,当意识到死亡真正来临时,也无法抑制内心巨大的恐惧:Milady uttered a frightful shriek, and dragged herself along several paces upon her knees toward her judges… At these words, which left no hope, Milady raised herself in all her pride, and wished to speak; but her strength failed her. She felt that a powerful and implacable hand seized her by the hair, and dragged her away as irrevocably as fatality drags humanity. She did not, therefore, even attempt the least resistance, and went out of the cottage. 上面的描写可以说和上段米拉迪在前面面对死亡时所表现出来的态度截然不同。这似乎有所矛盾,但其实不然。她以前面对死亡是冷静的,因为她有着超人的洞察力和过人的胆识,她有信心自己可以渡过难关。也就说一个真正的强人,有着超强的观察的,可以探测到自己的生死。米拉迪就是这样的人。
米拉迪就是这样一个女人:美丽的使人眩目,邪恶的又令人痛恨。如同潘朵拉一般的感觉,打开邪恶的盒子,让罪恶充斥人间,最终也将以悲剧结尾。在中世纪这个女性地位低下的时代,米拉迪却能如鱼得水地穿梭于上流社会。经过一代巨匠大仲马的清楚刻画,一个女人的‘坏’在米拉迪身上发挥得淋漓尽致,让读者清楚看到了邪恶的神韵和风采。
参考文献:①大仲马著,沈敏译,《三个火枪手》,远方出版社
②作者:王学文,《三剑客》(http://ly-www.sd.cninfo.net/book/waiguo/dazhongma/sanjianke/003.htm)
③本文中有关《三个火枪手》的引文均引自王惠君,王惠玲翻译的《三个火枪手》,伊梨人民出版社,柯文出版社,2001年。
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