中西文化比较视野下的文学爱情主题解读——《红楼梦》和《汤姆·琼斯》的比较研究

On the Theme of Love in the Comparative Perspective of the Chinese and Western Culture——A Comparative Study of A dream of Red Mansions and Tom Jones.

《红楼梦》和《汤姆·琼斯》分别是代表18世纪中国和英国小说创作最高成就的两部作品。二者都以爱情为主题,却分别展示了中、英两种文化下意识形态的不同:一种是在家族制影响下的个体力量薄弱,另一种是个体本位影响下的个体意识强烈。正是由于意识形态的不同,最终导致了两部作品中截然不同的爱情结果。

A dream of Red Mansions and Tom Jones respectively represent the highest achievement of the novels of the eighteenth - century China and the Great Britain. The two works, both themed with love, displayed the different ideologies in the Chinese and British cultures： one is that individual strength is weak under the influence of the family while the other is that individual consciousness is strong under the influence of the individual standard. It is because of the different ideologies which eventually led to the starkly different results of love n the two works