18世纪的英国动乱与变革并存,理性与感性交织的时代。奥利弗·哥尔德斯密通过《威克菲尔德的牧师》再现了当时的社会文化状况,写出了人物角色在这种社会变化中的挣扎与必然。其笔下人物在互动中的焦虑与转换不仅显示了转型时期的英国人民普遍面临的精神上的困惑,也从侧面反映作者对社会道德、价值观以及人性的质疑和思考,同时表达了自身对社会发展前景的乐观憧憬以及对爱和真善美的追求。 Era of the 18th century with the unrest and change coexisted in Britain and the interweaving of reason and sensibility. Oliver Goldsmith reproduced the social and cultural conditions at that time through the Viceroy of Wakefield, and wrote the struggle and inevitability of the characters in this social change. The anxiety and transformation of the characters in their interactions not only show the spiritual confusion generally faced by the British people during the transition period but also reflect the authors’ questions and reflections on social morality, values ​​and human nature from the side, Optimistic vision of the future and the pursuit of love and truth, goodness and beauty.