人间炼狱中的渡人圣者——论《萨勒姆女巫》中悲剧英雄的蜕变历程

《萨勒姆女巫》是一部因个人过失在无序的世界中丧失身份进而在更高层次上实现道德升华、完成救赎的平民悲剧。米勒开拓性地塑造了一位平民悲剧英雄并表达了积极乐观的悲剧精神，激发了观众的共鸣和心灵净化之感。该剧专注于社会改造和道德净化，力图为陷于生存困境之人提供道德启谕。笔者在总结米勒独特悲剧观的基础上从荣格个体化理论的视角分析该剧主人公向悲剧英雄蜕变的心路历程，阐释该剧现代文化背景下具有普遍意义的道德关怀，挖掘其独特艺术魅力和深刻思想主旨。

A Holy Man Saving Others in a Living Hell---On the Psychological Process of Tragic Hero in The Crucible

The Crucible is a tragedy describing a common man who strives for his identity in a moral disorder and finally sublimes his morality and gets redemption. Miller portrays a common man as a tragic hero and expresses the optimistic spirit, which conveys cathar?sis and moral enlightenment to audience. The play aims at social transformation purification and moral transformation and provides moral enlightenment to those who are suffering from living plight. The paper targets at explaining the universal moral enlightenments in modern cultural background and demonstrating the unique artistic charm and profound ideological thrust by analyzing the psychological transfor?mation of the tragic hero in the perspective of Jungian’ s individuation theory.