从柏拉图的模仿说看《霸王别姬》

A Comment on Farewell,Concubine from the Perspective of Plato's Imitation Theory

《霸王别姬》是香港著名才女作家李碧华的代表作,后更因陈凯歌导演改编成电影而享誉海内外。柏拉图认为坏的戏剧性的模仿会改变人的天性、扭曲人的心理,不当的模仿是对个人同一性的伤害、对个人身份认同的分裂。在《霸王别姬》中,程蝶衣因持续模仿与自己完全不同的人物和性格,对现实和戏剧世界之间界限认识模糊,并由此形成第二天性。而另一主角段小楼模仿的是接近自身形象的角色,加上对现实身份的认定十分清楚,因此受持续模仿的影响较少。

Farewell,Concubine,a masterpiece of Li Bihua（a famous talented woman writer in Hong Kong） is well known all over the world due to Chen Kaige＇s adaptation of it into a film.Plato holds that malfunctioned dramatic imitation may change a person＇s nature,twist a person＇s psychology,do harm to a person＇s oneness and split a person＇s identification of identity.In Farewell,Concubine,Chen Dieyi continually took off completely different characters and formed a second nature as the result of his vague cognition of the ambit between reality and drama.In contrast,Duan Xiaolou imitated characters similar to himself,had a clear understanding of his real identity and received fewer effects of continual imitation.