“我-你”关系——论勃朗宁戏剧性独白的戏剧性

“I-You” Relationship: On the Drama of Browning's Dramatic Monologues

罗伯特·勃朗宁是戏剧性独白的集大成者。他受到了浪漫主义抒情诗传统的影响,继承其主体性,注重内心探索;同时,有感于维多利亚英国的复杂和分化,他拒斥抒情诗中独白的独调性,通过戏剧性独白中的"我-你"对话来探寻人物分裂的内心。独白者"我"与分裂自我"你"之间的对话赋予诗歌强烈的戏剧性。独白者在"我-你"戏剧性冲突过程中暴露自己的性格,而"你"的身份多重、力量强大、不可捉摸,已具备现代心理学中潜意识的基本特征。勃朗宁戏剧性独白体现出的心理戏剧性捕捉了真实的社会心理,是文学现代性的重要特征,是人文主义思想的又一大进步。

Robert Browning establishes himself as the great dramatic monologue poet with the dramatic nature of his monologues. He inherits the subjectivity of Romantic lyrics, devoting himself to psychological explorations, while at the same time rebels against its monologic nature by presenting a split personality in dialogues, which lays the foundation for the study of drama within the monologue. The interaction between the inner ＂I-You＂ forms dialogues, in which the speaker＇s personality is dramatically presented; the unconquerable ＂You＂ has many identities yet is mysterious, possessing basic features of the unconscious in the theory of modem psychology. The psychological drama demonstrated by his dramatic monologues faithfully captures human psychology in society, and is one of the most important elements of literary modernity, pushing the development of humanism in literature a step further.