论《寒夜》的悲剧艺术

On the Tragic Art of Cold Night

《寒夜》是巴金的代表作之一。这是一部社会悲剧小说 ,小说的背景首先奠定了作品的悲剧性 ;小说的主要人物汪文宣就是一个悲剧人物 ,其悲剧性格主要体现为情与理的冲突和希望与现实的落差 ;而汪母和曾树生的婆媳矛盾 ,其根源在于新旧文化的冲突 。

Cold Night is one of the representative works of Writer Ba Jin. It is a novel depicting social tragedy. First of all, the setting of the novel lays the foundation for the tragic nature of the book. Wang Wenxuan, the chief character in the novel, is a tragic person. His tragic nature is chiefly shown in the conflict between his feeling and rational knowledge, and in the difference between his hope and reality. The root cause of the contradiction between Wang's mother and her daughter in law Zeng Shusheng lies in the conflict between new culture and old tradition. It belongs to the category of cultural tragedy.