《天雨花》塑造的婢妾形象及作者矛盾的女性观

Odalisque Image Created in the Novel "Tian Yu Hua" and Its Author's Contradictive Female View

清代作家陶贞怀在其创作的《天雨花》中塑造了大量婢妾形象。对这些婢妾作者始终持有一种摇摆不定的态度,一方面对她们违背封建纲常的行为进行大肆批判,一方面在字里行间又流露出对她们所经历的悲惨遭遇的深切同情。作者对待这些婢妾的矛盾态度,可以作出两种解读:一种是阶级立场使然,作者对下层女性的悲惨遭遇无法感同身受;另一种解读是通过对婢妾深重灾难的客观直白描写,以期引起社会对下层女性命运的关注。这是作者独具匠心的创作手法。

Tao Zhenghuai, the famous writer in Qing dynasty, created many images of odalisks in his novel ＂Tian Yu Hua＂ In the evaluation on these odalisks, the author always had one seesaw attitude. On one hand, he criticized their behavior against feudal ethical codes widely, on the other hand, he showed his deep sympathy for the miserable life of these odalisks between lines of his novels. Author~ contradictive attitude for these oda- lisks can be interpreted from two aspects ： his class stand making him difficult to feel the miserable life of these odalisks,and his direct and objective description for the ridden disasters of these odalisks, which caused the concern of society on the fates of these females and became one unique creative method of author.