《红楼梦》是我国文学史上的一部现实主义巨著,它毫不掩饰地描写了痛苦的人生、破灭的梦和被摧残的爱情,这显然是它成为一部永恒伟大作品的因素之一。用西方文艺理论研究《红楼梦》的开山鼻祖王国维认为:《红楼梦》属于叔本华所说的第三种悲剧———剧“中人物之位置及关系而不 A Dream of Red Mansions, a realistic masterpiece in the history of Chinese literature, describes the painful life, the shattered dream and the ravaged love without any cover-up, which is obviously one of the factors that make it an eternal great work. Wang Guowei, who studies the origin of “Dream of Red Mansions” with western literary theory, holds that “Dream of Red Mansions” belongs to the position and relationship of characters in the third kind of tragedy --- drama by Schopenhauer