《威尼斯商人》中的现实与童话

Reality and Fairy Tales in The Merchant of Venice

在《威尼斯商人》中,莎士比亚以写实手法描绘了威尼斯的现实世界,与之形成映衬的是贝尔蒙特的童话世界,在两个看似异质而悬隔的世界中,生活的假面性皆无处不在。体现出一种将现实主义与童话传奇、社会写实与诗意玄想并置对照且渗透互介的独特创作风格。

In The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare has given us a mirror - like picture of Venice reality by contrasting it with a fairyland of Belmont. Venice and Belmont, two worlds seem so different or even divergent, both take ＂masking＂ as its key word. This brings us to a peculiar characteristic which is to be found in the paralleling and mixing of realism and fairy tales, social portrait and poetic fancy.