戏剧情境包括人物活动的具体环境、突发事件以及特定的人物关系等。亨利.詹姆斯的小说借鉴戏剧情境及其包含着的悬念的表现手法,收到了很好的效果。由于小说家在塑造人物形象时都要将人物放在特定的人物关系中,故本文省去对特定人物关系的论述。下面我们就从人物活动的具体环境、突发事件、戏剧悬念这三个方面来看。 Drama situations include the specific circumstances of people’s activities, emergencies and specific relationships among people. Henry James’s novels draw on the dramatic situation and the expression of suspense contained in it, and received good results. Because novels write characters in a specific relationship of characters, this article eliminates the discussion of the relationship between specific characters. Here we start from the specific circumstances of the character activities, unexpected events, drama suspense these three aspects.