分裂的身份与认同的危机——巴金《寒夜》主人公悲剧原因新论

Divided ldentity and Identity Crisis:A New Discussion on the Causes of the Protagonists’Tragedyin BA Jin’s Cold Nights

《寒夜》是一部意蕴丰富的作品,其悲剧内涵历来为研究者所关注。结合当时的历史语境与人物自身的心理机制,可以从身份认同视角重新审视主人公的悲剧原因。研究表明,《寒夜》两个主人公的自我身份认同“叙事”均出现了断裂,由此形成了无法挽回的悲剧,其中汪文宣表现为从“新青年”到“老好人”的困境,曾树生则表现为从“新女性”到“花瓶”的困境。

Cold Nights is a work of profound meaning,whose tragic connotation has always been a research focus.The tragic causes of its protagonists were reexamined from the perspective of identity in combination with the historical context of the story and the psychology of the characters.It was found that the self-identity“narratives”of the protagonists in Cold Nights are broken,thus forming inevitable tragedy,among which WANG Wenxuan presents the dilemma from one of the“new youth”to a“goody-goody”,while ZENG Shusheng presents the dilemma from a“new woman”to an“eye candy”.