Chinese academia used to notice the phycological and emotional themes when discussing the ethical dimension of Ian McEwan's novels,or preferred to break away from the ethical focus and merely emphasized the history and politics of British society instead.In fact,McEwan's multi-layered attention to legal images and legal themes happens to be the link between moral ethics and social reality.Taking the novel The Children Act as an example,it reflects on the two legal concepts"the moralities of duty"and"the moralities of aspiration"through the pattern of poetic justice by creating the character Fiona Meyer and deducing the limitations of the morality of law in the context of legislation,judicature,and discretion.Starting from the individual depiction,McEwan takes the perspective of law to examine the public moral dilemma,which not only reveals the literary jurisprudence of the work but also presents his poetic ethics of realism.
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伊恩·麦克尤恩/《儿童法案》/现实主义/法律与道德/诗性正义
Key words
Ian McEwan/The Children Act/realism/law and morals/poetic justice
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