摘要
《哈姆雷特》是莎士比亚最负盛名的剧本之一,代表着英国文艺复兴时期戏剧的最高成就,对其的研究数不胜数。而“镜子”又有着悠久的历史,中西文艺作品中都充满着各种各样的“镜子”之喻。“镜子”在《哈姆雷特》中,也以不同的具有“镜子”特征的意象,既体现了“镜子”的现实功能,即映照出事物的具体表象,反映了真实面貌,又体现了其隐喻的意义,即反射出了人的灵魂。这一切也反映了西方文化中镜子的丰富特征。
Hamlet is one of the prestigious plays of Shakespeare and also represents the highest glory in playwriting of Renaissance England,and there are numerous studies on it.In Hamlet,different images with“mirror”characteristics,not only embody such realistic functions of the“mirror”as reflecting the concrete representation of things and reflecting the authentic looks of people but also have such profound metaphorical meanings as reflecting the human soul.“Mirror”as a metaphor has a long history in Chinese and Western culture.The“mirror”is always used by human beings as an important tool for exploring the self,nature,and society.It can reflect the unpredictable inner world of human beings,the survival of the fittest in nature,and the continuous replacement of society.This paper attempts to find the profound symbolic and cultural meaning it carries through the metaphorical interpretation of the“mirror”.
