莎剧经典《暴风雨》:现代性曙光下的美丽新世界

Shakespeare's Classic The Tempest:A Brave New World in the Dawn of Modernity

莎士比亚被视作西方经典的核心,在跨时代、跨文化中被传播、翻译、阐释、解读、解构,其内蕴与寓意渐次展开且不断丰富,成为全球共享的世界性文化符号。莎士比亚戏剧的经典性在于其蕴含的现代性,当代人的生存境遇和情感困境在其戏剧中找到先声。传奇剧《暴风雨》聚集了莎翁戏剧中常见的元素,即政治权谋、复仇惩戒及宽恕和解。“三一律”的古典叙事中隐喻了时代语境下的殖民热潮,更预示了个体现代性的特征,即人性复归、理性高扬、自由意志。主人公普洛士帕罗历经荒岛的磨炼完成自我塑造,并最终以男子的行动和女子的爱结合构建起理想社会,以迎接现代性曙光下的美丽新世界。

Shakespeare,regarded as the core of Western classics,has been disseminated,translated,interpreted,interpreted and deconstructed across times and cultures.Its connotations and implications have been gradually expanded and enriched,becoming a worldwide cultural symbol shared by the whole world.The classical nature of Shakespeare's plays lies in its implied modernity.The living situation and emotional dilemma of contemporary people are echoed and confirmed in Shakespeare's plays.The Tempest combines elements of political intrigue,retribution,and forgiveness that are familiar from Shakespeare's plays.The classical narrative of"three uniform"is a metaphor for the colonial upsurge in the context of The Times,and also predicts the characteristics of individual modernity,namely,the return of humanity,the exaltation of rationality and the free will.Prospero,the protagonist,finishes self-shaping through the temper of the desert island,and finally constructs an ideal society through the combination of men's actions and women's love,so as to meet the brave new world under the dawn of modernity.