Acknowledgments First and foremost, I would like to show my deepest gratitude to my supervisor, Ms. He, a respectable, responsible and resourceful scholar, who has provided me with valuable guidance in every stage of the writing of this thesis. Without her enlightening instruction, impressive kindness and patience, I could not have completed my thesis. Her keen and vigorous academic observation enlightens me not only in this thesis but also in my future study.41763
I would also like to thank all my teachers who have helped me to develop the fundamental and essential academic competence. My sincere appreciation also goes to the teachers and students from Shanghai Institute of Technology, who participated this study with great cooperation.
Last but not least, I' d like to thank all my friends, especially my three lovely roommates, for their encouragement and support.
Abstract
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is a famous comedy written by Shakespeare. In this comedy, the main characters are against the feudal marriage, and they appreciate true love and marriage based on their own choice. Shakespeare skillfully sets circumstances, and makes the atmosphere of suspense through the myth manufacturing, and finally makes everyone get the happiness of love. The most important part in this drama is the female images who are fighting against difficulties to gain their true love. In fact, all these images expressed in this drama show Shakespeare’s view on love, and also show the view of humanistic love ,which is full of liberty and equality.
The article is pided into five parts. The first part introduces Shakespeare and A Midsummer Night's Dream. The second part analyzes the drama "A Midsummer Night's Dream" characters and its moral, and analyzes the writing methods and language features. The third part uses the dialogue to analyze the view of love in this comedy, meanwhile researching Shakespeare’s view of love. The forth part mainly writes the great impact of Shakespeare’s view of love on literature and human being’s cognition. The last part made a summary that Shakespeare shows his the infinite pursuit of free love and humanistic love through his works.
Key words: Shakespeare; the view of love; true love; female images; equality.
摘要《仲夏夜之梦》是莎士比亚著名的喜剧。在这部喜剧中，主要的角色反对封建婚姻，他们欣赏真正的爱情和自由的婚姻。莎士比亚巧妙地设置了环境，使悬念的气氛通过神话制造，并最终使每个人得到的幸福的爱。这部戏中最重要的一部分是那些与困难抗争的女性形象，获得真正的爱情。事实上，所有表现在这部戏中的形象都间接表达出了莎士比亚的爱情观，显示了人本主义的爱情观，充满自由与平等。
文章一共分为5个部分。第一个部分介绍了莎士比亚的个人经历和《仲夏夜之梦》这部戏剧。第二部分重点分析了《仲夏夜之梦》这部戏剧的人物形象和作品寓意，同时分析了这部戏剧中的写作手法和语言风格。第三部分主要引用了戏剧中男女主角的对话来分析这部戏剧体现的爱情观，同时探究莎士比亚的爱情观。第四部分着重写了莎士比亚作品中的爱情观对于文学和人文的深远影响。最后部分做出总结，莎士比亚通过他的作品来体现他对自由恋爱和人文主义爱情的无限追求。
毕业论文关键词：莎士比亚；爱情观；真爱；女性形象；平等
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments i
Abstract ii
摘要 iii
1 Introduction 1
1.1 Shakespeare’s personal experience 1
1.2 Shakespeare’s works about love 2
2 Literature review 4
3 The analysis of A Midsummer Night’s Dream 6 从《仲夏夜之梦》看莎士比亚爱情观:http://www.751com.cn/yingyu/lunwen_41942.html