论王尔德童话的特点

On the Characteristics of Oscar Wilde's Fairy Tales

王尔德打破传统童话用通俗易懂的语言,撰写正反人物性格鲜明的、扬善惩恶为主题的创作模式,他多以善无善报的悲剧结局为主题,折射人世间的冷酷和丑恶。人物多重性和可变性性格的塑造;花和心等传统意象的反义运用,童话篇名的反义设置;非童话生僻词、复杂句式和刻意修辞的使用,都是王尔德童话的特点。他以童话为"面具",对现实社会的冷酷与丑恶进行揭露和抨击是其童话的主要特点,也是其童话的重要价值。

Oscar Wilde abandoned the traditional model of fairy tales that are written in simple language with clear-cut good or bad characters and the themes of punishing the vice and praising the good. He contrived good-deeds-bearing-bad-fruit tragic endings as the theme to reveal the cruelty and ugliness in the real world, created roles with multiple and changeable personalities, subversively used some traditional symbols such as flower and heart, adopted paradoxical titles, and wrote with uncommon words, complex sentences and complicated modifications. All this forms the characteristics of Wilde＇s fairy tales. He used fairy tales as his “mask” to disclose and criticize the cruelty and evil of the real world, which is one of the characteristics and the value of his fairy tales.