论《红楼梦》与《水浒传》死亡预叙聚焦方式的审美差异

Aesthetic Difference in Death Flash-forward Focus Way in A Dream of Red Mansions and the Outlaws of the Marsh

《红楼梦》与《水浒传》中均有对文中人物死亡的预叙,但两部小说死亡预叙的聚焦方式则有差异:《红楼梦》死亡预叙采用的是内部聚焦叙事,《水浒传》采用的是外部聚焦叙事。聚焦方式的差别体现出不同的死亡观:《红楼梦》认为死亡是惨痛人生的悲剧性结果,《水浒传》认为死亡是顺其自然的人生终结。

There are death flash-forward’s focuses in A Dream of Red Mansions and The Outlaws of the Marsh,but the death flash-forward’s focuses way are different.The death flash-forward in A Dream of Red Mansions is an internal focus narrative,but the one in The Outlaws of the Marsh is external.The difference in the focus way reflect the different view of death,A Dream of Red Mansions considers that death is the painful life’s tragic results,and The Outlaws of the Marsh considers that death is a natural process.