教堂尖塔 (The Spire)

《教堂尖塔》是戈尔丁重要的代表作，是一部深入探讨人类信仰与绝望、理想与现实错综混杂的佳作。圣母马利亚大教堂的乔斯林教长真切地感觉到主的召唤，要他为了主的荣光去建造一座高达四百英尺的教堂尖塔。他天真地以为，只要"虔诚"，只要有坚定的"意志"，上帝就一定会助他平地建起上达天庭的尖塔，结果当然是一败涂地。戈尔丁在《教堂尖塔》中寄予了人类寻求理想境界的希望，也揭示了理想终归走向破灭的现实生存状况；崇高的企求与丑恶的现实、向善的奋争与罪恶的欲望相互交织；通过荒诞与现实交错的画面，象征与隐喻并用的艺术手法，作者深刻揭示了人性与社会的真相。(The Spire is an important representative work of Golding. It is an excellent work which makes in-depth exploration on human belief and despair and mixes ideal and reality. Jocelin, Dean of Mother Mary Cathedral, truly felt the call of God who wanted him to build a 400-foot high spire for the glory of God. He thought naively that God would help him to build a spire reaching the heaven on the ground as long as he was "Pious" and had strong "Will". Of course, the result was a complete loss. In The Spire, Golding places human's hope of quest for ideal realm and reveals the actual living condition that the ideal would go bust after all; noble desires and ugly reality, struggle for good and evil desires interweave with each other; through the picture that absurdity interlacing with reality and the artistic techniques of symbolism and metaphor, the author reveals the truth of human nature and society.)