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| Title: | 邊界的掙扎：《移動迷宮》中裸命的焦慮
Struggling on the Threshold: Anxiety as Bare Life in James Dashner's The Maze Runner Trilogy |
| Authors: | 曾靖芳
Tseng, Ching-Fang |
| Contributors: | 黃涵榆
陳音頤
Huang, Han-Yu
Chen, Yin-I
曾靖芳
Tseng, Ching-Fang |
| Keywords: | 移動迷宮
裸命
焦慮
恥辱
微弱的彌賽亞主義
潛勢
The Maze Runner
bare life
anxiety
shame
weak messianism
impotentilaity |
| Date: | 2025 |
| Issue Date: | 2025-09-01 14:37:03 (UTC+8) |
| Abstract: | 本論文運用阿岡本的「裸命」(bare life)概念，探討詹姆斯・達許納的《移動迷宮》三部曲如何反映當代社會與政治議題。第二章檢視Gladers作為裸命的焦慮。他們的焦慮源自記憶喪失與作為實驗對象所承受的非人處境，進而在社群中促成合作卻同時引發內部衝突。對裸命身份的自覺造成持續性的羞恥感，最終演變為慣性羞恥。這樣的毒性羞恥觸發了Gladers的自我防衛機制，並驅使他們在群體中製造出更深一層的裸命結構。Alby與Newt作為領導者，雖致力於維繫秩序，卻無意間複製了他們所身陷的壓迫體制。第三章延續此論點，分析Ben的反抗與對秩序的挑戰。此反抗象徵Gladers所壓抑的慾望與焦慮，也對他們脆弱的秩序與常態意識提出批判。此外，本論文亦援引阿岡本的「微弱的彌賽亞主義」（weak messianism），探討Alby與Newt。他們展現微弱彌賽亞主義的「潛勢」（impotentiality），體現阿岡本所提出的「懸置」（deactivation）與「不作為」（inoperativity）的倫理實踐。
This thesis examines how The Maze Runner trilogy by James Dashner reflects contemporary social and political concerns through Giorgio Agamben’s concept of “bare life.” Chapter Two focuses on the Gladers’ anxiety as bare life. The Gladers’ anxiety, rooted in memory loss and their dehumanizing condition as human lab rats, gives rise to both cooperation and internal conflict. Their awareness of being reduced to bare life induces a persistent sense of shame that ultimately develops into chronic, toxic shame. This toxic shame, however, activates the Gladers’ self-defense mechanisms that compel them to construct an additional layer of bare life within the community. Their leaders, Alby and Newt, attempt to preserve order, yet unintentionally reproduce the very systems of oppression under which they suffer. Chapter Three extends this analysis by examining Ben’s monstrous transgression, which symbolizes the Gladers’ repressed desire and anxiety, while also serving as a critique of their fragile sense of order and normalcy. In addition, this chapter draws on Agamben’s notion of “weak messianism” to analyze the characters Alby and Newt as messianic figures who embody “impotentiality,” thereby exemplifying Agamben’s ideas of “deactivation” and “inoperativity.” |
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國立政治大學
英國語文學系
108551001 |
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| Data Type: | thesis |
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