《都柏林人》是詹姆斯·乔伊斯久负盛名的短篇小说集,作者用现实主义和象征主义相结合的手法,成功再现了19世纪末20世纪初爱尔兰的殖民地处境。其中,“灯”在小说《都柏林人》中代表了诸多意向,既是都柏林人虚假希望的象征,也揭示着柏林人受殖民者和教会双重压迫的悲惨现实。 Dubliners, James Joyce’s long-established collection of short stories, used the combination of realism and symbolism to successfully reproduce the Irish colonial situation of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Among them, “Light” represents many intentions in the novel “Dublinians”, not only as symbols of Dublin’s false hopes, but also of the miserable reality of Berliner’s dual oppression by colonizers and churches.