陈天华蹈海原因新析

A New Analysis of the Reason for Chen Tianhua's Committing Suicide in the Sea

陈天华之所以走上蹈海自尽之路 ,主要是因为他在革命与改良两种救国主张之间举棋不定 ,无所适从以至长期处于焦虑、压抑、苦闷之心理状态的结果 ,具体而言是由在他身上体现出来的三对两难矛盾所决定的 ,即感情上倾向革命与理智上倾向改良的矛盾 ;革命派身份与改良派思想倾向的矛盾以及寄望于留日学界与失望于留日学界的矛盾等。正是这三对既相互联系又相互区别的两难矛盾 ,使陈天华这真诚的爱国者在对革命与改良两种救国主张的取舍上陷入了进退维谷的信仰绝境 ,最终不得不选择蹈海自尽之路以求解脱。

Chen Tianhua committed suicide in the sea because he was indecisive between revolution and reform, the two positions for saving China, and subsequently was situated in a psychological state of anxiety, inhibition and depression for a long time. Specifically, these are contradictions between emotionally tending to revolution and rationally tending to reform, between revolutionary identity and reformational thoughts, and between expectations on and disappoint in the students studying in Japan. It is the three dilemmas that lead Chen Tianhua into a hopeless situation of political beliefs where he can neither advance nor retreat. Finally, he was forced to choose the way to kill himself in the sea.