混沌与开窍：论弥尔顿对参孙形象的再创造

在《力士参孙》中，弥尔顿将《士师记》中的参孙融入17世纪英国资产阶级革命与宗教改革的语境，使之从企图抵抗神意、缺乏责任感、拙于处理自我与他者关系的“巨婴”变成了富有使命感、以理性指导实践、顺应神意的“成人”，借以指出未竟的宗教解放事业符合历史正义与政治正确，必须以理性认清与宗教解放间的距离、完成革命者的自我改造来实现之。《力士参孙》接续《失乐园》中因遭受诱惑而失败、《复乐园》中经受考验而胜利的脉络，为英国人民打出了时代的强心针。

關鍵字

“巨婴”参孙； “成人”参孙；弥尔顿

並列摘要

In Samson Agonistes, John Milton places Samson from the Book of Judges in the context of Britain's bourgeois revolution and Puritan movement of the 17^(th) century, to remold him from the ＂baby＂ Samson who tried to resist Yahweh's will, lacked any sense of responsibility and failed to deal with relationships between self and others, to an ＂adult＂ Samson who used reason to comply with divine will in a sense of mission. This re-creation implied not only the historical justice and political rightness of the unfinished cause of religious freedom, but also the necessity of reason which is required to understand the distance to success and complete the revolutionaries' task of self-transformation to finish the cause. Samson Agonistes thus follows Paradise Lost in its failure due to temptation, and Paradise Regained's victory when tested, and gave the British people of the time a welcome tonic for the heart.

並列關鍵字

＂baby＂ Samson ；＂adult＂ Samson ； John Milton

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