《红楼梦》惜春与《乱世佳人》卡琳命运结局相似原因探析

Study on Similarity of Life and Endings between Ja Xichun of A dream of Red Mansions and Carreen O'Hara of Gone with the Wind

贾惜春和卡琳·奥哈拉分别是我国清代小说《红楼梦》和美国小说《乱世佳人》中的次要人物,但两人的家世、性格、遭际、结局也有诸多的相似性:惜春是贾府"四春"最小的一个,卡琳是塔拉庄园三姐妹中最小的一个;两人出场时年纪都很小,敏感柔弱,渐长后消极避世,沉迷宗教;惜春出家为尼,卡琳则去修女院做了修女。造成两人命运如此相似的原因,一是社会和家庭变故,二是因为两人自小就受到社会、家庭和宗教氛围的巨大影响,三是跟她们柔弱、敏感、聪慧的个人性格分不开。这两个相似性极高的小说人物形象的塑造,反映了中西文学创作中所遵循的一些共同规律,从而能够客观地把小说人物的生活和故事呈现于公众面前。

Ja Xichun is the secondary role in A Dream of Red Mansions and Carreen O＇Hara is also secondary role of Gone with the Wind. They have the similar family,personality,encounter and ending. Jia Xichun is the youngest in four sisters of Jia＇s Family,and Carreen is the youngest in three sisters of Tara Manor. Both girls were very young,delicate and sensitive when they appear in novels. When they grew up,they both become negative,reclusive and indulging in religion. Their endings are similar too,Xichun become a nun and Carreen go to the abbey. There are three causes to their similar fate. The first cause is they encountered social and family misfortune,the second cause is they are impacted by social and family religious atmosphere since childhood,the third cause is their tender,sensitive,and intelligent personal character. The two high similar character images show Chinese and American literary creation follows some common laws and tell the objective and lifelike story.