《等待野蛮人》中主角老行政长官的内心独白占据了作品的大部分篇幅。其内心斗争以及他的各种矛盾行为实际上是人格当中的自我部分为了协调本我、现实以及超我而做出的努力。通过分析老行政长官人格的各个组成部分,笔者发现,老行政长官的人格蕴涵了作品的主题,那便是对生命的尊重以及对人性回归的期盼。等待野蛮人就象征着等待理想中的国度,等待一个充满人性的国度。整个作品传达的是一种对现代人处境的关怀,对现代人精神归宿的关注。 The inner soliloquy of the protagonist of the “Waiting for Barbarians” occupies most of the work. His inner struggle and his various contradictions are in fact the efforts of the self-part of the personality in order to coordinate the self, reality and super-self. By analyzing the various components of the personality of the chief executive, the author finds that the personality of the chief executive contains the theme of his work. That is his respect for life and his hope for the return of humanity. Waiting for barbarians is a symbol of waiting for the ideal kingdom, waiting for a country full of humanity. The whole work conveys a kind of concern for the present situation of the people and concerns about the spiritual end of the modern day.