情节与人生——对亚里士多德情节中心论的论述

Plot and Life: An Exposition on Aristotle’s Plot-Centric Theory

摘要: 亚里士多德在《诗学》中阐述了什么是悲剧、构成悲剧的各个元素以及如何呈现一部优秀的悲剧，他指出在构成悲剧的各元素中最重要的就是情节，因为情节在文艺作品发挥其社会功用、教化作用的过程中起到巨大作用，并且能对人产生“卡塔西斯”的功用。这样，情节就和人以及人的幸福有了密切的联系，而在一切事物中人是最重要的，所以情节在构成悲剧的各个元素中处于中心地位。

Abstract: In Poetics, Aristotle first expounded what a tragedy is, the elements that constitute tragedy and how to present a great tragedy, he pointed out that in various elements that make up the tragedy, the most important is the plot, because the plot in literary works exerts their social functions, plays a huge role in the process of enlightenment, and can have the function of “catharsis” to people. In this way, plot has a close connection with people and their happiness, and people are the most important in all things, so plot is in the central position of the various elements that constitute tragedy.