米蘭達故事中的綠世界意象

The Green World and the Miranda Stories

凱賽琳‧安‧波特的小說時常描繪自然景色作為意象，以呈現女性角色在成長中或踏入社會後的處境。女性與自然的密切關係成為波特小說的特色，此即為綠世界的原型意象。在其書中，女性角色從綠世界出發再回歸而更生，綠世界更或是女性角色在外面世界遭遇排擠時的避難所。換言之，波特運用自然景物做為意象，生動而有效的描繪女性角色。此篇文章即探討波特在米蘭達故事中，如何運用綠世界的原型意象來描繪女性角色的心靈成長。

Katherine Anne Porter’s fiction is frequently imprinted on a landscape in a special world of nature that forms images of people and things describing a green world archetypal. Porter's works express a sense of the female-nature connection to show the predicament of a feminine life in the patriarchal society. The green world is the place from which female characters set forth and to which they return for renewal. It is also a refuge of those who confront their present placelessness in the outside world. In other words, Porter uses nature metaphors or similes to present female characters with vividness and efficiency. This article intends to interpret how the natural world has an impact on the spiritual or mental development of female characters in Porter’s Miranda stories where the green world reinforces the central theme.