性格命运与文化悲剧--再读曹禺的《北京人》

曾文清是中国传统中庸礼让文化的优秀代表者，他的命运是一出彻底的悲剧，他的命运是在他善良与懦弱的性格导向下一步步完成的。成就他性格命运的是社会环境，决定这个社会的价值取向的是这个社会的文化座标，它是一个与中国伦理本位的传统文化相对立的实用理性主义的文化体系，因此，《北京人》是一出以人物悲剧命运的形式来表现文化悲剧的戏剧。

Character Fortune and Culture Tragedy --Reread Peking Man of Cao Yu

Zeng Wenqing is the excellent representative of traditional practise comity in middle course. His fortune is a complete tragedy and his fortune finishes under the direction of his character of kindness and cowardice step by step. Social environment accomplishes his character fortune. The social culture coordinate decides the social value. It is a pragmatic reasonism cultural system which opposes the traditional culture of Chinese ethics standard. Therefore, Peking man is a play which displays culture tragedy with the characters' tragedy form.