卡莱尔视角还没完。
这部分接上章贝拉视角,剩余可能接近万字的部分回溯第34-43章。
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Domestic Violence: between Carlisle and His Father
家庭暴力:关于卡莱尔和他的父亲
关于本文已发出章节和未发出章节中所涉及到的对卡莱尔早年家庭教育的相关描述和设想,我再多说明一下哈。
注意: 暮光之城原作相关设定解释与描述中,并未明确提到早年时卡莱尔的父亲曾对其施暴。
对他父亲的相关言行描写,是我从官方设定中推测出的最贴合实际情况的一个延伸方向。
暮光原著中的相关原文是这样的:
a. His father was an intolerant man. (intolerant, adj, 意为不容忍、不宽容,缺乏接受不同观点或行为的能力)
b. He placed his obedient son in charge of the raids. 译:(年老体衰后)他让他顺从听话的儿子(卡莱尔)负责(对女巫、狼人和吸血鬼)进行抓捕攻击。
c. Carlisle knew what his father would do. The bodies would be burned - anything infected by the monster must be destroyed. 译:卡莱尔明白他的父亲会如何做。尸体会被烧毁——任何受吸血怪物感染的东西都必须摧毁。
《官方指南》中的相关描述是这样的:
a.卡莱尔的父亲是他唯一的亲人,母亲在生他的时候去世,他也没有兄弟姐妹。
b.卡莱尔的父亲自以为是、毫无同情心,造成许多无辜的人们被活活烧死。
c.然而,卡莱尔和他的性情大相径庭。
d.(转变后)卡莱尔知道无论自己过着怎样的新生活父亲都会憎恨自己,他再也没有回家。他从远处悄悄地看过父亲几次,但从没跟他联系。
(所以这样一个残暴的爹是怎么培养出一个逆来顺受的圣人儿子的……?)
(其实细想也很有道理,正是如此。)
(卡莱尔之所以人品这么nice,和他爹有很大关系。“圣人”人格说的不好听一点,就是“讨好型人格”。他总是在努力满足所有人的期待。)
(在爹妈宠爱的家庭里长出来的大多都是像德拉科马尔福那样藐天藐地的拽小孩。没爹没妈的救世主破特性格一样很nice)
在此引用我个人非常赞同的汤上一篇博客的提问箱回答:
匿名提问:
Do you think Carlisle’s dad was abusive or somewhat abusive towards him in his childhood?
(你是否觉得卡莱尔的父亲在他童年时期展现出虐待他,或者有虐待他的倾向呢?)
博主回答:
I went through the novel and only got "His father was an intolerant man."; "he placed his obedient son in charge of the raids" and "Carlisle knew what his father would do. The bodies would be burned - anything infected by the monster must be destroyed. " No direct mention of his father being abusive, which could be the fandom's headcanon. But given the historical context, this headcanon could be quite accurate.
In the patriarchal and hierarchic power of early modern Protestant ideology, the father had the right to lead the household spiritually and socially through corrections that included corporal punishment and public humiliation. Children were taught that they should humbly accept discipline. "Obedient son" in Twilight indicates that Carlisle negatively accepted his father's upbringing in a way. Midnight Sun reveals that his greatest rebellion was "those murders Carlisle had been unwillingly involved". Seventeenth-century Protestant moralists stressed the important role of fathers in guiding the spiritual upbringing of their children, plus contemporary religion called for salvation through a great amount of self-loathing in religious introspection. His father probably instilled this mindset in Carlisle from an early age in ways such as verbal suppression and Carlisle's self-hatred as a vampire is a testament to the profound influence of his father's "education".
So yes I totally agree that Carlisle's father was abusive towards him. But I feel this was not a personality defect or mental disorder of his father perse, but a common occurrence in the seventeenth-century context: the children weres loved, but the contemporary religion and cultural setting rationalised the abuse and violence in education which were reviewed as "being responsible"; his father's protecting, caring and his cruel and oppressive were not dichotomous. And as an accepted form of discipline the household, his father might not only have imposed abuse on him when he was a child but until the end of his human life.
(我回去翻原文,只找到了“他的父亲是一个不宽容的人。”,“他让他顺从的儿子负责袭击行动。”和“卡莱尔知道他的父亲会怎么做。尸体会被焚烧 - 任何被这个怪物感染的东西都必须被毁灭。”等几句话,并没有直接提到他的父亲有虐待行为。你所提出的这个问题应该是粉丝圈中对他父亲角色的普遍设想。但是考虑到历史背景,这种设想可能相当准确。
在早期(15-19世纪)现代新教意识形态的家长制和等级制中,父亲有权通过包括体罚和公开羞辱在内各种惩戒方式,来纠正家庭成员的行为举止,以在精神层面和社会层面领导家庭家族。孩子们被教导应该谦虚地接受管教。《暮光》原文中的“顺从的儿子”这一描述表示卡莱尔以消极的方式接受了他父亲对他的训诫。而《午夜阳光》中则提到他最激烈的反抗也只不过是“卡莱尔不情愿地参与那些屠杀”。十七世纪的新教在道德上强调父亲在引导孩子的精神教育方面的重要作用,同时当代宗教要求通过大量的自我憎恶进行宗教内省以获得救赎。他的父亲可能从小就通过口头压制等方式灌输这种思想,而卡莱尔作为一个吸血鬼的长期的自我厌恶则证明了他父亲所施加在他身上的“教育”对他产生了极其深远的影响。
因此,我完全同意卡莱尔的父亲对他有虐待行为这种说法。但我认为这并不是因为他父亲本身有人格缺陷或精神障碍,而是这是十七世纪英国社会的普遍现象:孩子们被“暴虐”地爱着。那个年代的宗教和文化背景将教育中的虐待和暴力合理化,认为这是“挺负责的一种表现”;他父亲的保护、关心和残忍、压迫并不是二元对立的。作为一种被当时社会普遍认同和接受的纪律森严的家教形式,他的父亲对他的施加的各种凌虐可能并不仅限于他的童年时期,而是很有可能从小到大一直持续蔓延,直到卡莱尔23岁的人类生命终结为止。)
而据我干瘪的历史知识储备——17世纪,文艺复兴刚开始不久的那个时代,父亲对家中妻儿施加暴力是个司空见惯的现象。英国社会还曾制定法律,严禁男人们在晚上九点钟后暴打妻子孩子,而制定法律的原因并不是社会进步人权觉醒精神开明之类的,而是这会造成女人和小孩的啼哭声过大,打搅到周围邻居,因而立法禁止。