美國當代作家菲利普·羅斯在創作中注重對艱難生存環境下的人物命運進行反思。《人的污點》以美國當代歷史事件為背景,通過筆下人物的遭遇和思考,深刻揭露了當今美國的社會現狀和底層人物在倫理困境中的掙扎與辛酸。而文學倫理學批評關注文學文本的倫理道德主題,通過解析文本中的各種倫理現象,重新審視人性和社會現實。本文從身份、欲望和死亡三個倫理角度出發,分析作者對少數族裔在多元文化整合過程中的異化現象和自我命運在階級社會中生存的哲學思辨,揭示作者對整個人類與自然、與社會,以及人與人之間諸多問題的倫理反思。

Contemporary American Writer Philip Roth,a sharp observer of the society,often reflects on destiny in hard living environment in his writings. Taking the historical affairs of contemporary America as the background,the author,in The Human Stain,thinks over the misfortunes of the characters,then deeply discloses the current situation in American society and the struggle and bitterness of the lower-class people in ethical dilemma. Ethical Literary Criticism concerns ethical morality in literary texts. By analyzing the various ethical phenomena in the text,it reexamines humanity and social reality. From three ethical perspectives of identity,desire and death,this paper not only reveals the author’s philosophical speculation on the alienated phenomena of ethnic minority in the process of integration with other cultures and on the survival of one’s destiny in class society,but also contains his ethical introspection on many issues,such as the relationships between human and nature,human and society,and human and himself.