世俗化的喜剧形象与国民的隐显人格(上)——《西游记》猪八戒形象新论

Secularized Comic Image and Civil Personae: A New Reading of Ba Jie in A Journey to the West

《西游记》中猪八戒形象以“贪”和“呆”为其外部特征,以“真”为其形象的实质性内容,是世俗化的喜剧艺术典型。分析了人们对猪八戒形象既喜爱又嘲笑的矛盾审美观感,认为这既和国民性格中的隐性人格和显性人格这种分裂型的双重人格有关,也是人类所共有的个人欲望与社会道德责任感矛盾的产物,同时又与这个形象的喜剧性特征有着重要联系。

In A Journey to the West, Ba Jie is characterized by his external features of greediness and stupidity, and his internal feature of trueness, and in this sense, he is a secularized comic image. People＇s love and mock of this image contribute to a contradictory aesthetics, which is closely related to the unity of a visible and invisible civil persona, the dual personality of civil citizens. Such a personality is the product of individual desires and social responsibilities, and it contributes to the comic effect of the image under discussion.