诺贝尔文学奖得主托尼·莫里森的作品《慈悲》反映的是17世纪末北美新大陆的蓄奴制度形成初期的社会历史背景,蓄奴制和父权文化给小说人物造成了不同程度的心灵创伤。他们不甘沉沦而抗争和救赎的过程,揭示了美国历史上白人同有色人种的整体对立的形成过程以及作为奴隶制遗毒的种族歧视现象至今仍然存在于在美国社会的历史原因。 The “mercy” of the work by Nobel Prize winner Tony Morrison reflects the social and historical background of the initial establishment of the slave-dendering system in North American New Continent at the end of the 17th century. Slavery and patriarchal culture have caused varying degrees of spiritual trauma to novelists . Their unwillingness to sink and fight and salvation reveals the historical process of the formation of the overall opposites of white and colored people in American history and the phenomenon of racial discrimination as a legacy of slavery that still exists in American society.