《鸿门宴》是高中语文课本中的传统篇目之一。它叙述的故事情节紧张曲折,矛盾尖锐突出,先后出场的众多人物,个个富有个性,呼之欲出。作者是如何安排并描写这些人物的?我们稍加考察,不难发现他们大都是对称而存在的。首先,同样觊觎着皇帝宝座,叫嚷“彼可取而代之也”的项羽和慨叹“大丈夫当如是也”的刘邦,就是彼此对称而存在着的两个主要人物。从思想上看,虽然他们目的一样,但刘邦表现出来的是一个职位卑微的小官吏对未来的憧憬,项羽表现出来的则是一个没落贵族的强烈的复仇愿望。从力量上 “The Banquet” is one of the traditional articles in high school language textbooks. The narratives it described were tense and twisted, and the contradictions were sharp and pointed. Many of the characters who appeared successively were full of individuality and were ready to appear. How does the author arrange and describe these characters? When we examine them a bit, it is not difficult to find that they are mostly symmetrical. First of all, Xiang Li, who is also carrying the Emperor’s throne, yells that “he can take his place and replace it” and Liu Bang, who sighs “Big husband is the same”, are the two main characters that exist symmetrically. From the ideological point of view, although their purpose is the same, what Liu Bang shows is a humble ambition of the small bureaucrats for the future. What Xiang Yu shows is a strong desire to revenge the nobles. From strength