Re: [問題] 魔戒已刪文
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: 有一篇用英文寫的故事 用魔戒的劇情模擬博士班生活的文章
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The Lord of the Rings: an allegory of the PhD?
The story starts with Frodo: a young hobbit, quite bright, a bit
dissatisfied with what he's learnt so far and with his mates back home who
just want to get jobs and settle down and drink beer. He's also very much in
awe of his tutor and mentor, the very senior professor Gandalf, so when
Gandalf suggests he take on a short project for him (carrying the Ring to
Rivendell), he agrees. Frodo very quickly encounters the shadowy forces of
fear and despair which will haunt the rest of his journey and leave
permanent scars on his psyche, but he also makes some useful friends. In
particular, he spends an evening down at the pub with Aragorn, who has been
wandering the world for many years as Gandalf's postdoc and becomes Frodo's
adviser when Gandalf isn't around.
After Frodo has completed his first project, Gandalf (along with head of
department Elrond) proposes that the work should be extended. He assembles a
large research group, including visiting students Gimli and Legolas, the
foreign postdoc Boromir,and several of Frodo's own friends from his
undergraduate days. Frodo agrees to tackle this larger project, though he
has mixed feelings about it. ("'I will take the Ring', he said, 'although I
do not know why.'")
Very rapidly, things go wrong. First, Gandalf disappears and has no more
interaction with Frodo until everything is over. (Frodo assumes his
supervisor is dead: in fact, he's simply found a more interesting topic and
is working on that instead.) At his first international conference in
Lorien, Frodo is cross-examined terrifyingly by Galadriel and betrayed by
Boromir, who is anxious to take the credit for the work himself. Frodo cuts
himself off from the rest of his team: from now on, he will only discuss his
work with Sam, an old friend who doesn't really understand what it's all
about, but in any case is prepared to give Frodo credit for being rather
cleverer than he is. Then he sets out towards Mordor.
The last and darkest period of Frodo's journey clearly represents the
writing-up stage, as he struggles towards Mount Doom (submission), finding
his burden growing heavier and heavier yet more and more a part of himself;
more and more terrified of failure; plagued by the figure of Gollum, the
student who carried the Ring before him but never wrote up and still hangs
around as a burnt-out, jealous shadow; talking less and less even to Sam.
When he submits the Ring to the fire, it is in desperate confusion rather
than with confidence, and for a while the world seems empty.
Eventually it is over: the Ring is gone, everyone congratulates him, and
for a few days he can convince himself that his troubles are over. But there
is one more obstacle to overcome: months later, back in the Shire, he must
confront the external examiner Saruman, an old enemy of Gandalf, who seeks
to humiliate and destroy his rival's protege. With the help of his friends
and colleagues, Frodo passes through this ordeal, but discovers at the end
that victory has no value left for him. While his friends return to settling
down and finding jobs and starting families, Frodo remains in limbo;
finally, along with Gandalf, Elrond and many others, he joins the brain
drain across the Western ocean to the new land beyond.
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