神话学视野下的白蛇故事情节探析——以越剧《新白蛇传》为例

An Analysis of the Story of the White Snake From the Perspective of Mythology——Taking the Yue Opera New White Snake as an Example

《白蛇传》是著名的中国古典四大神话传说之一,讲述了一个修炼成人形的白蛇与人类青年许仙曲折爱情故事。白蛇故事自明代冯梦龙《警世通言》中《白娘子永镇雷峰塔》一文始,在清代逐渐盛行。经历了后世民间集体创作改编之后,白蛇故事在情节和人物塑造方面都变得更加成熟,但其核心剧情并未有较大的改变。文章以上海市静安越剧团出演、朱祝芬主演的越剧《新白蛇传》为例,从动物变形、施恩与报恩和二元对立结构三个方面分析其情节,探析白蛇故事的神话特质。

The Legend of white snake is one of the four famous myths and legends of Chinese classical. It tells a story about a female snake which changed into a girl and a young man. The white snake story since the Ming Dynasty Feng Menglong＂men＂in the＂white lady＂began a permanent pagoda town,gradually prevailed in the Qing dynasty. After the folk collective creation and adaptation of later generations,the white snake story became more mature in the plot and character shaping,but the core plot did not change greatly.White Snake in Shanghai city of Jing＇an Yue Opera starring Zhu Zhufen,starred in the drama New White Snake as an example,from the three aspects of animal,grace and gratitude and deformation of two binary structure analysis of the plot,the story of the White Snake myth characteristics.