从理想走向现实:莎士比亚喜剧、悲剧中的女性形象比较

Characters in Shakespeare's Comedies and Tragedies

莎士比亚在他的戏剧中塑造了一系列女性形象。喜剧中的女性大部分处于主角地位,她们充满智慧、才能和美德,大胆反抗传统道德,追求爱情自由和婚姻自主,是体现人文主义理想的新女性。悲剧中的女性退为次要人物,她们要么是纯洁的天使,要么是狠毒邪恶的恶魔,体现了作者对英国社会现实生活的深入认识。喜剧和悲剧中女性形象的变化,反映了作者认识生活和创作思想的变化,也可以看出作者男权意识的自然流露。

Shakespeare had produced series of female characters in his plays. The most women in his comedies take the most important places. They are full of wisdom, talent and virtue. They rebel the traditional moral bravely, pursuing the freedom of love and the self decision of marriage . They are new women, revealing the humanism ideal. The women in the tragedies correspondingly draw back to the secondary characters. They are either pure female like angle or evil devil, expressing deep recognition of British real social life. The changes of female images in comedy and tragedy reveal the changes of the way how the author recognized life and ideas guiding the creation. And it also naturally reveals the author＇s male chauvinism.