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在凱薩琳‧安‧波特的小說中處處可見暴力的影子，本文以主題研究試探
討波特作品中之暴力特質。本文將暴力類分為三：肢體暴力，婚姻暴力，
及機制暴力。肢體暴力探討衝突發生導源於人性中自我防衛的本能，〝瑪
麗亞﹒康賽普生〞及〝午酒〞中主要人物以肢體方式對抗外來的侵犯力量
以維護其原有之世界和次序。第二部份的婚姻暴力強調波特對婚姻的看法
，她相信愛與恨是一體的兩面，而婚姻雙方對彼此潛伏的恨意終將導致無
以彌補的暴力傷害，此外，波特筆下的婚姻均為殘缺不全的關係，多少反
映了作者實際的婚姻狀況。機制一詞指的包括家庭和社會政府，而波特以
為家庭是一最險惡的機制，它壓抑了個人的自我也殘迫家庭中弱勢分子，
這樣的迫害與背叛在原本應有愛和無盡關懷的家庭中進行，更顯現家庭暴
力的潛在危險，這部份以成人與孩童，健全殘障家庭成員間的關係為重點
。另一方面，波特經歷了二次大戰，因此她對於任何採好戰，專制，軍國
主義的政府均極力反對；無疑地，政府對個人的統治及操控亦為另一形式
的暴力。本論文期能傳達波特對暴力傷害以及災難的預警，避免更多暴力
產生。
In Katherine Anne Porter''s fiction, violence is an important
theme. This thesis starts from violence to Porter''s
premonitions of disaster in order to elucidate the causality of
human failures. I classify the thesis into three main chapters
with respect to its different forms of violence. The first
chapter is on corporal violence, which stems from a very
impulsive human instinct and some dark passion. In "Maria
Concepcion" and "Noon Wine," the characters take violent
actions with a simple desire of defending themselves from
offensive outer forces so that they can sustain their original
state of life. My second concern is about marital violence.
Porter believes that love and hatred are the edges of a knife,
but love needs to be learned, while hatred is instinctive. The
marriage relationships in Porter''s fiction are mostly failed
ones, which to some degree reflects Porter''s marriages in
reality. The latent hatred within the couples generates
conflicts and violence that eventually damage the relation-
ships. The last chapter deals with political (institutional)
violence between authority and subject. Family and social
government are both the insidious institutions to viciously
manipulate the inferior subject people. Readers shall be
expected to receive instructions from Porter''s unique sense of
violence and her premonitions of disaster.
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