文学伦理学批评把伦理意义上的人看成是“一种斯芬克斯因子的存在”,由人性因子与兽性因子组成。文章运用文学伦理学批评方法,通过对《哈利·波特》系列中哈利和伏地魔两个主要人物在社会化过程中做出的伦理选择及其背后的动因进行考察,认为哈利与伏地魔被建构成一对具有同源结构的镜像人物,其中一个是“善”的体现,另一个是“恶”的化身。他们二者你中有我、我中有你,是一种相互寄托、相互依存的共生关系。这对相互对立又相互依存的镜像人物,恰如一个硬币的正反两面,可以象征性地看成是一个人兽同体的斯芬克斯因子:伏地魔代表斯芬克斯的兽身,象征着被欲望驱动、表现为自然意志的兽性因子;而哈利则代表斯芬克斯的人头,象征着受伦理意识控制、表现为理性意志的人性因子。在小说结尾,哈利所代表的正义力量对伏地魔所代表的邪恶力量的胜利,隐喻着哈利人格发展过程中人性因子对兽性因子的胜利,即人性因子有效地制约了兽性因子,使他获得理性的成熟,走向人格的完善。
In the viewpoint of Ethical Literary Criticism,man is an existence of Sphinx factors,a combination of hu-man factor and animal factor. Through a detailed analysis of the ethical choices made by the protagonist Harry and the antagonist Voldemort in Harry Potter and their respective motives with the method of Ethical Literary Criticism, we come to the conclusion that Harry and Voldemort are constructed as a pair of mirror images with homologous structure ,one of which is the embodiment of“good”,the other incarnation of“evil”. They are in a kind of parasitic relation,namely,Harry keeps part of Voldemort’s soul in his body,and Voldemort has Harry’s blood run in his vessel. They are opposite to each other,but meanwhile,they are interdependent on each other for living,so they are just like the two sides of the same coin. The pair of mirrored characters with mutual antagonism and mutual depend-ence,like two sides of a coin,can be symbolically seen as a Sphinx factor:Voldemort