李娃圆形人物论

Analysis of the Round Character Liwa

李娃是唐传奇《李娃传》中的主人公,是中国文言短篇小说的艺术典型。本文试图以英国小说家福斯特的小说理论去分析李娃这个人物形象,揭示出她的性格中不仅有善良、多情、忠贞的一面,也有狡诈、冷酷、虚伪的另一面,从而说明在中国古代文言短篇小说中同样存在着圆形人物这样的艺术典型。

Liwa is the heroine in biography of liwa, a romance of the Tang dynasty, and an important typical character of art in classical Chinese tales. This article tries to analyze the image of liwa according to the fiction theory of Forster, reveal that she is not only affectionate、kind and unswervingly loyal but also craft、 cold-hearted and hypocritical, that is to say, there exists the image of round character in classical Chinese tales in the old times.