从《边城》看沈从文的审美理想和人生哲学

Shen Congwen's Aesthetic Ideal and Philosophy Reflected fromBoder Town

《边城》是一部浪漫主义作品。该作品运用了许多的象征。通过这些象征,我们了解了沈从文的审美理想和人生哲学。作品中淳朴善良的人物象征着美好的人性,表达了作者对于人性美的追求;白塔、渡船、碾坊象征着传统文明与现代文明的对立,表达了作者对于现代性的排斥;而作品中的死亡意象则象征着生命的无常,表达了作者对于不可掌握的命运的思考。

BorderTown is a romantic work written by Shen Congwen.We will know Shen’s aesthetic ideal and philosophy of life through the symbols he used in this book.The unsophisticated and kind characters express the writer’s pursuit of good human nature.White tower,ferry and grain mill symbolizes the rejection between tradition and modern culture.The death image stands for the changeable life,which expresses the writer’s thought on the fate.