时世与英雄--《鲁宾孙漂流记》与《文明前哨》

摘要

作家在现实面前是“心灵感受器”，他们对现实做出反应并加以表现。某种程度上，文学承担着记载历史的特殊使命。丹尼尔・笛福和约瑟夫・康拉德同为英国文学史上的小说家，但各自时代不同，他们作品中的人物形象背后蕴涵着各自时代社会的价值与要求。他们的作品见证了英国从工业革命时期盛极一时的“日不落帝国”到一战结束后的“日薄西山”。%Before the reality, the author becomes a soul receptor who responds to and represents the reality.So, to some extent, literature bears a special mission of recording the history.Both Daniel Defoe and Joseph Conrad are novelists in the history of English literature.Due to their different times of living, the figures in their works contain values and demands of their respective times and societies.Their works witnessed the grand shift from the-sun-never-sets Britain in the industrial revolution to the-sun-sets-down Britain after the end of World War One .