兰州大学中文系的刘铁群从原型分析的角度入手,将萧峰的悲苦一生与古希腊悲剧家索福克勒斯笔下的俄狄浦斯作了横向比较,他以“向后站”的观察方式,透过两部作品表层的巨大差异挖掘出它们深刻的内在一致性,把萧峰的悲剧定性为命运悲剧,认为所遭受的一切苦难都是命中早已注定的,就同俄狄浦斯一样,以自己的力量是无法扭转的。他在《〈天龙八部〉的原型分析》一文中写道:“他与俄狄浦斯一样,在身处人生最辉煌境地之时受到了命运的苦难与不 Liu Tiequn from the Department of Chinese Studies of Lanzhou University started from the perspective of prototype analysis and made a horizontal comparison between Xiao Feng’s tragic life and Oedipus from the ancient Greek tragedy Sophocles. Way, through the huge difference between the two works on the surface of their profound internal consistency excavated, the tragedy of Xiao Feng as a tragedy of fate, that suffered all the misfortune is hit long predestined, just as with Oedipus, With their own power can not be reversed. In his article ”Archetypal Analysis of Tian Long Ba Bu,“ he wrote: ”Like Oedipus, he suffered the fate of suffering and not in the most glorious life