委顿生命的挣扎与式微——重压下的高觉新与汪文宣形象书写

The Struggle and Decline of Depressed Lives——Image of Gao Juexin and Wang Wenxuan under Pressure

高觉新和汪文宣是巴金作品中"委顿的生命"的代表。这两个人物形象在性格、处境方面前后一脉相承,他们都负担着超越自身承受能力的现实压力,又因为个性的软弱,使得生命在重压负累下日渐凋零。然而二人在面对压力时有着主动和被动两种不同的态度,这使得汪文宣比高觉新有了更加浓重的悲剧意味,也反映出不同创作时期巴金思想的嬗变。

Gao Juexin and Wang Wenxuan,who showed similarities in character and living conditions,are the typical images of flagging lives in Bajin’s literary works.Both of them,faced with pressure beyond their ability, gradually withered because of their weakness.However,they adopted two entirely different attitudes,active and passive respectively,which tinted Wang Wenxuan’s life with stronger tragic implication compared with that of Gao Juexin.The difference also reflects the transmutation of Bajin’s thoughts in different periods.