威廉·戈尔丁的《航程祭典》通过塔尔伯特的日记以及附加的牧师科利的书信记录了牧师客死船上的始末。两种叙述从世俗理性和个体感性的不同角度映照出科利的两幅主观镜像,记录了他自我道德认知被彻底颠覆的痛苦经历。叙述人对周围人物和事件的看法在不同程度上,自觉或不自觉地受到了自身阶级规约的伦理模式的支配。如果不受塔尔伯特半是戏谑眼光的影响,也不沉溺于科利迷失自我的叙述,整个事件可以看作一场个人伦理感受和社会伦理道德规范共同作用下的伦理悲剧,贯穿小说的是戈尔丁对人类社会和人性的思考。 William Goldin’s Voyage Festival recorded the origins of the pastor’s off-board ship through Talbot’s diary and the attached Epistles of Collie. The two narratives mirror two of Colley’s subjective mirrors from the different perspectives of secular reason and individual sensibility, and record the painful experience of his own moral cognition being completely subversive. To varying degrees, the narrator’s view of the people and events around him is consciously or unconsciously dominated by the ethical model of his own class statute. If not influenced by Talbot’s half-banter vision and indulged in the narrative of Colley’s lost self, the whole incident can be regarded as an ethical tragedy under the joint influence of personal ethics and social ethics and moral norms It is Golding’s reflection on human society and humanity.