《醒世姻缘传》作者劝惩意图与实际效果的消解

The Author of The Marriage Stories to Awaken Men Persuasion and Punishment Intention and Dissolution of Actual Effect

西周生创作《醒世姻缘传》小说的主观意图主要在于劝惩教化。但由于小说因果报应的设定,以及实际书写中存在的一些疏漏,作者对喜剧娱乐因素分寸把控并不完美等种种因素使得小说文本本身即对其劝惩功能造成了消解,并不能达到作者预期的劝惩效果。作者的主观创作意图,与书写的客观效果、读者的阅读感受形成了背离。

The subjective intention of the novel"The Marriage Stories to Awaken Men"written by Xi Zhousheng is mainly to persuade,punish and educate. However,due to the setting of karma in the novel and some omissions in the actual writing,The author’s control of comedy and entertainment factors is not perfect,which makes the novel itself dissolve its function of persuasion and punishment and cannot achieve the expected effect of persuasion and punishment. The author’s subjective intention deviates from the objective effect of writing and the reader’s reading feeling. However,this article will make a concrete analysis of the deviation between the author’s subjective intention of persuasion and punis-ment and the actual effect in The Marriage Stories to Awaken Men.