从戏剧结构看《牡丹亭》杜宝形象的复杂性

The Complexity of Du Bao's Image in Peony Pavilion from the Perspective of Dramatic Structure

从戏剧结构上看,《牡丹亭》属于复线结构。主线描写杜丽娘和柳梦梅的爱情故事,围绕主线展开的戏剧冲突,表达了作者对"情欲"和"礼教"关系的倾向性。副线描写南宋王朝的抗金斗争,在家国矛盾中,作者在以杜宝这个身份特殊的人物,将主线和副线有机地糅合在一起的同时,也赋予杜宝这个人物形象以复杂性和矛盾性:他既是封建礼教的维护者、执行者,又是作者理想的"修身、齐家、治国、平天下"的正派官吏形象;同时,杜宝身上还隐约渗透了作者的自我形象。

Peony Pavilion has a double-theme structure.The major theme is the love story of Du Liniang and Liu Mengmei,and through a series of dramatic conflicts,expresses the dramatist's attitude to 'lust' and 'feudal ethics'.The minor theme depicts the resistance of the Southern Song Dynasty to the invasion of the Jin Dynasty.Through the character Du Bao who was caught in the crisis of nation and family,the dramatist is able to combine the major theme with the minor one and give Du Bao a complex and contradicting character.A guard and an executioner of feudal ethics,Du is also an upright official who embodies the dramatist's ideal of 'governing oneself,then the family,then the kingdom and then the world'.In fact,Du vaguely shows the dramatist's self-image as well.