《雷雨》与祈雨仪式——曹禺剧作《雷雨》的文化学阐释

Thunderstorm and the Ceremony of Rain Praying——A Cultural Interpretation of Cao Yu's Thunderstorm

曹禺的《雷雨》之所以具有经久不衰的文化魅力并深受作者自己的喜爱,一个未被人们发掘出来的原因是它再现了一个古老的原型——祈雨仪式。在无意识的驱使下,曹禺以现代话剧的形式把古老的祈雨仪式再现在人们面前,不仅让人们重温了祈雨仪式中蕴涵的人类文化精神,也为人们树立了一个在人生旅途中必须不断审视自我、拯救自我、完善自我的范例。

Cao Yu's thunderstorm possesses a prolonged charm and is also the favorite of the writer himself .One of the reasons,which people fail to explore,is that it makes an ancient archetype-the ceremory of rain praying reappear. Under the drive of unconsciousness,Cao Yu reproduces this ceremony in the form of modern drama,which not only reviews the spirit of human culture embodied in this ceremory,but sets up an example of repeated self-examintion,self-redemption and self-perfection in the life journey.