元春命运与贾府盛衰

历来红学家多认为元春命运决定贾府兴衰。元春因自身的不受宠及作者主观方面的原因,无论在政治上、经济上都没有对贾府的命运起过决定性作用。贾府的衰败是其自身的结果。作者塑造元春只是要表现一个薄命女儿的形象,但元春命运确与贾府盛衰有相似性。

The Fate of Yuanchun and the Rise and Fall of the Jias

Many scholars who have studied A Dream of Red Mansions believe that the fate of Yuanchun,one of the Emperor' s concubines,determines the rise and fall of the Jias(Yuanchun s family before marriage)but this point of view is hard to convince anybody else.The fact that Yuanchun could not receive favor from Emperor and the writer s subjectivity were not to play a decisive role to the rise and fall of the Jias.Actually,the fall of the Jias was the social trend at that time.The writer of the novel deliberately cr...