卑贱者人格意识的觉醒——元杂剧奴婢和妓女形象之特点

Awakening of Personal Conscience of the Lowly

元代的爱情婚姻剧塑造了许多卑贱者的典型形象。本文所谓卑贱者,是指那些被剥夺了做人权利的奴婢和妓女。她们身处社会最低层,命运极其悲惨。可贵的是,她们并没有屈服于不公平的命运,而是表现出了极强的抗争意识。本文通过对作品中这些卑贱者形象性格的分析,来表现她们身上所蕴涵的人格意识的觉醒,从而更好地理解元杂剧的思想内涵及其历史价值。

The love and marriage drama of the Yuan Dynasty portrays many model personalities of the lowly. The lowly refers to the slaves, maid servants and prostitutes who were deprived of human rights. Lying at the bottom of social hierarchy, they led an extremely miserable life. Admirably, however, they showed very strong contending conscience rather than just yield to the unfair fate. Through an analysis of these personalities, this article demonstrates the awakening of their personal conscience and thus helping readers to better understand the implications and historic values of zaju of the Yuan Dynasty.