重识曹禺话剧的经典意义与审美价值

Reconsidering the Classical Meaning and Aesthetic Value of Cao Yu’s Plays

曹禺的《雷雨》《日出》《原野》和《北京人》这四部作品,其经典意义和审美价值并不是由批评家所决定的,而是由广大读者与观众用他们孜孜不倦的热情所铸就的。曹禺超越现实生活的表面现象,用自己的道德标准去探索人的灵魂的多样性和复杂性,并通过悲剧艺术的表现形式,深刻表达了他关爱生命的高尚情操。曹禺的话剧经典追求艺术审美的感性力量,擅长以“矛盾冲突”的不断自我否定,推进故事情节的递进发展、高潮起伏,创造了一种极受读者和观众喜爱的民族气派与民族风格。

Cao Yu’s four works,namely Thunderstorm,Sunrise,The Wilderness and Peking Man,are not determined by critics,but by readers and audiences with endless enthusiasm.Cao Yu transcended the surface phenomenon of real life,explored the diversity and complexity of human soul with his own moral standards,and deeply expressed his noble sentiment of caring for life through the expression of tragic art.Cao Yu’s classical plays pursue the perceptual power of art aesthetics,and are good at promoting the progressive development and climax of the plot with the contradiction of“self contradictory”,creating a national style that is very popular with readers and audiences.