电视剧《人世间》在广阔的时间和空间背景下，将小人物的悲欢离合融入 中国近五十年波澜壮阔的社会变迁历史之中，是严肃文学改编为主旋律电视 剧的成功范例。通过对小说和电视剧的比较发现，在人物形象方面，电视剧用复杂人物提纯化、简单人物复杂化和正面人物群像化的策略，将镜头集中于主要人物形象的塑造，刻画了淳朴善良、个性鲜明的东北人物群像；在叙事结构方面，剧作将原著的“回形针”改编为顺序结构，淡化政治色彩、突出“家庭 观念”，让观众理清故事发展脉络的同时唤醒集体记忆，深化“家国同构”的理念；在叙事基调方面，电视剧调亮了原著中的温暖底色，突出了感人至深的亲情、义字当头的友情和真挚感人的爱情，激发观众向美向善的追求。

The TV series The World of Men, which integrates the sorrows and joys of minor characters into the history of China's nearly fifty years of sweeping social changes in a broad context of time and space, is a successful example of the adaptation of serious literature into a melodramatic TV series. A comparison of the novel and the TV series reveals that in terms of characterization, the TV series uses the strategy of purifying complex characters, complicating simple characters and grouping positive characters, focusing the camera on the portrayal of major characters, and portraying a group of simple, kind-hearted and distinctive northeastern characters; in terms of the narrative structure, the drama adapts the original's "paper clip" to a sequential structure, and then adapts the original's "paper clip" to a sequential structure. In terms of narrative structure, the drama adapts the original "paperclip" into a sequential structure, downplaying political coloring and highlighting the "family concept", allowing the audience to clarify the story line while awakening the collective memory and deepening the concept of "family and country"; in terms of narrative tone, the TV series In terms of narrative tone, the TV series brightens up the warm undertones of the original story, highlighting the deeply touching family love, righteous friendship and sincere and touching love, inspiring the audience to pursue beauty and goodness.