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摘 要《罗密欧与朱丽叶》和《梁山伯与祝英台》是两部哀艳的爱情悲剧，前一部出自英国戏剧大师莎士比亚之手，后一部是我国从南北朝时期就一直以不同形态的艺术形式传播着的民间四大传说之一，分别在东西方两个不同的文化中心散射光芒。本文试从作品的爱的追求方式、表现手法和审美观念这几个方面来探讨两部作品之间的异同。前者的爱情大胆、热烈、率性、热情似火，后者的爱情婉约、束缚、无奈、低调内敛，这都反映出了中西方社会环境和文化的不同。这篇文章能帮助人们更好的欣赏两部作品的内在美，以及中西方文化审美的不同。
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毕业论文关键字：爱情悲剧; 表现手法; 审美观
Abstract Romeo and Juliet and Butterfly lovers are two poignant love tragedies with the former written by British dramatist Shakespeare and the latter one of the four great folk tales spread from the Southern and Northern Dynasty of China with different art forms, shining brightly in the center of the two different cultures between western countries and China. This paper is to explore the similarities and differences between the two works from the aspect of the pursuit of love, writing technique, and aesthetic ideas. The former love is bold, warm, straightforward, and solicitous, while the latter is graceful, bound, helpless, and reserved which reflects differences in the environmental and cultural traditions between Western and Chinese society. This paper will be beneficial to understand the inner beauty of the two works and the difference in Chinese and Western aesthetic ideas.
Key words: love tragedy; writing technique; aesthetic ideas
A Comparative Analysis of Love Tragedies of Romeo and Juliet and Butterfly lovers
Contents
摘 要 i
Abstract ii
I. Introduction 1
II. The Love Tragedies in Butterfly Lovers and Romeo and Juliet… 3
2.1 The Love Tragedy in Butterfly Lovers 3
2.2. The Love Tragedy in Romeo and Juliet 5
III.The Differences and Similarities in Butterfly Lovers and Romeo and Juliet 6
3.1 The Writing Techniques in Butterfly Lovers and Romeo and Juliet 6
3.2. The Differences and Similarities in the Pursuit of Love in Butterfly Lovers and Romeo and Juliet. 9
IV. The Differences of Chinese and Western Aesthetic Ideas in Butterfly Lovers and Romeo and Juliet 11
4.1 The Chinese Aesthetic Ideas in Butterfly Lovers and Romeo and Juliet 11
4.2. The Western Aesthetic Ideas in Butterfly Lovers and Romeo and Juliet 12
V. Conclusion 13
Bibliography 15
Acknowledgements 16
Ⅰ. Introduction
As an ancient art, love tragedies are deeply loved by the majority of the audience, as it also has higher research value. Both Romeo and Juliet and The Butterfly lovers are the love tragedies that enjoy high reputations in the west and China respectively for a long history. Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeare’s most famous tragedies, written in 1595. The Butterfly lovers is claiming to be “Chinese Romeo and Juliet”, is one of the great four folktales in China. It’s well known that Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy about young love, hopes and dreams which are destroyed by the stupid family feuds. Its protagonists are the passionate young loves from the rival families who show the amazing courage in pursuing their happiness even at the cost of their lives. Similarly Butterfly loves tells the Chinese loves in the Jin Dynasty who are separated apart by the cruel feudal society because of their different social status. Under the great pressure from the authoritarian patriarchy society, the young couple has no choice but to commit suicide to resist the forced marriage.