小说世俗化与女性形象新变——以《三国志演义》、《水浒传》为中心

Secularization of Novels and New Changes of Female Images:——A Doctrinal Investigation on The Romance of Three Kingdoms and The Water Margin

作为明代小说中影响较大的作品,《三国志演义》与《水浒传》刻画了众多个性鲜明的人物形象,亦开启了明代小说世俗化的浪潮。对读两部作品中的女性形象将不难发现,从流于符号化的貂蝉到相对独立的潘金莲,彰显了作者对女性人物形象由平面化处理到立体化塑造的演变。置于时代背景观之,这类女性形象的新变正是明中期以降文学面向现实、关注人性之世俗化趋势的表征与印证。

As the famous novels in Middle Ming Dynasty,The Romance of Three Kingdoms and The Water Margin create lots of distinctive female images,and open a new era of the secularization of novels. By comparing the two novels,it is found the secularizing trend turns from symbolic Diaochan to independent PAN Jin-lian. In contrast with the portraying of Diaochan,the authors of The Water Margin made the female images of PAN Jin-lian more complicated. These new changes can be viewed as a sign of secularizing trend in Middle Ming Dynasty.