论《儒林外史》中的人物概念隐喻

On the Conceptual Metaphor of Characters in The Scholars

《儒林外史》是清代乾隆年间吴敬梓完成的长篇小说,作品运用绝妙的讽刺手法反映了封建社会末期的世间百相。小说中描绘了一群淋漓尽致的人物形象,从人物名字的有意选取到人物形象的刻画和情节描写等方面较多用隐喻的手法,具体包括人名的结构隐喻、人物形象的方位隐喻和人物命运的本体隐喻的运用。突出了作者的介入式思想和感情取向,揭露和批判了官场的腐败、政治的黑暗以及封建道德的虚伪和残酷,同时从某种意义上也寄寓作者对美好生活的向往。

The Scholars is a novel written by Wu Jingzi during the reign of Emperor Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty.It reflects the world at the end of the feudal society with wonderful satire.Metaphor is used in many aspects of the portrayal of characters,including the structural metaphor of names,the orientation metaphor of characters and the noumenal metaphor of characters’fates.It not only highlights the author’s interventionist thoughts and emotional orientation,but also exposes and criticizes the corruption of officialdom,the darkness of politics and the hypocrisy and cruelty of feudal morality.At the same time,in a sense,it also expresses the author’s yearning for a better life.