Abstract：Toni Morrison, an American black novelist, won the Nobel Prize in 1993. She is successful because she becomes the first black female novelist who wins the Nobel Prize.

　　　Among all of her works, Beloved is the most famous one. The novel takes an infanticide story as its main tread, and deeply exposes the odiousness of slavery and the terrible trauma left by the slavery in mind of the Black. With the remarkable use of all kinds of writing skills, Morrison brings this novel a deep theme. The use of symbolism of this novel causes many foreign and domestic scholars to study.

　　　This thesis aims to analyze the symbolism of settings and figures in Beloved. The study of symbolism in Beloved aims to expose the repression and trauma from which Blacks suffered under the slavery as well as the course of the Blacks’ self-searching. Meanwhile, this paper tries to probe the freedom and identity of the Blacks.

Keywords:  Toni Morrison  Beloved  Symbolism

摘要：托尼.莫里森, 美国黑人小说家，于1993年获得诺贝文学奖。作为美国史上获此殊荣的第一位黑人女作家，莫里森无疑是成功的。

　　　在她的一系列作品中，《宠儿》是最为出色的一部。这部小说以一个杀婴故事为主线，深刻揭露了奴隶制的丑恶以及奴隶制在广大黑奴的心灵上留下的不可磨灭的巨大创伤。莫里森以其娴熟的写作技巧和精湛的描写赋予了《宠儿》深刻的思想主题。小说中巧妙绝伦的象征主义，引起了国内外诸多学者的研究。

　　　本论文主要分析《宠儿》中场景和人物的象征意义，旨在揭示在奴隶制下黑人遭受的压迫和创伤以及黑人寻找自我的过程，并探讨黑人自由和身份的含义。

关键词: 托尼.莫里森；《宠儿》；象征