超越正义,超越人类控制:莎士比亚喜剧和罗曼史中的总体天意

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David V. Urban
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本文讨论了在《无事生非》、《量力而行》、《冬天的故事》和《暴风雨》中,天意是如何超越剧中仁慈的操纵者,以超越人类控制的方式帮助实现这些戏剧的喜剧结局的,既包括其善意的一面,也包括其有问题的一面。这些天赐的事件也为剧中的各种违法者提供了恩典和怜悯,这些违法者在悔过自新后,摆脱了其违法行为应受到的惩罚,并因此获得了充满希望的未来。相比之下,在《罗密欧与朱丽叶》、《奥赛罗》和《李尔王》等悲剧中,不幸的行为助长了那些为了自己的邪恶目的而操纵他人的人物的恶毒阴谋。但是,这些厄运事件并不足以造成悲剧,而是与悲剧主人公顽固而粗暴的决定共同作用,他们的错误选择与不幸的事态发展相吻合,给主人公和他们所爱的人带来了悲剧。本文认为,天意在这些喜剧和爱情剧中的作用与莎士比亚戏剧中显而易见的基督教基础是一致的,并得出结论:在一个堕落的世界中,悲剧是常态,而天意的干预则是所讨论的喜剧和爱情剧中大团圆结局的必要条件。
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Transcending Justice, Transcending Human Control: Overarching Providence in Shakespeare's Comedies and Romances
This essay discusses how in Much Ado About Nothing, Measure for Measure, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest, providential events that work over and above those plays' benevolent manipulators serve to help bring about these plays' comic endings in ways that transcend human control, both its well-intended aspects as well as its problematic aspects. These providential events also offer grace and mercy toward the plays' various transgressors who, demonstrating repentance, are freed from the justice their transgressions merit and are consequently granted hopeful futures. By contrast, in the tragedies Romeo and Juliet, Othello, and King Lear, acts of misfortune help aid the malevolent machinations of those characters that manipulate others for their own wicked ends. But these incidents of bad fortune are not sufficient to bring about tragedy, but rather act in conjunction with the stubborn and violent decisions of the tragedy's protagonists, whose poor choices coincide with unfortunate developments to bring about tragedy for the protagonists and those whom they love. This essay maintains that the workings of Providence in these comedies and romances is in keeping with the Christian grounding evident throughout Shakespeare's dramas, concluding that in a fallen world, tragedy is normative, whereas providential intervention is necessary for the happy endings of the discussed comedies and romances.
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