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小2号黑体 山西师范大学现代文理学院英语系 美国文学课程论文 封面题目用2号Times New Roman字体加粗 Love in the Pavilion Vs Love in the Balcony Du Liniang’s Vs Juliet’s Love Journey （如果有副标题，则用小2号Times New Roman字体加粗） 姓 名 张 莉 院 系 现代文理学院 专 业 英语教育 班 级 2008级01班 学 号 成 绩 Love in the Pavilion Vs Love in the Balcony Du Liniang’s Vs Juliet’s Love Journey The Peony Pavilion by Tang Xian Zu and Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare are two extraordinarily significant works about feverish love on eastern and western drama stages. The two great contemporary dramatists, who lived in vastly different cultures of east and west, presented their respective masterpieces almost at the same period (The Peony Pavilion in 1598, and Romeo and Juliet in 1596), which shared similar themes of the hero and the heroine’s pursuing genuine love relentlessly, even to the sacrifice of death. Further study may help reveal more detailed differences on the historical background and creating beliefs. Following the two female protagonists’ love journey, this paper attempts to reveal the similarities of seemingly-coincident scheme and then trace the reasons which cause the differences of the two works. I. The background of the two works. The Peony Pavilion was written in an era when China was going through a rigid, repressive style of Neo-Confucianism known as Daoxue, which emphasized proper outward displays of behavior and rituals in the Middle and Later Ming Dynasty. Tang Xianzu, a learned scholar, felt dismayed and suffocated with the society, he resigned from the court official and then devoted to the literary works. Meanwhile in western country, European society was going through the Renaissance, a revolutionary movement of advocacy of humanism. Shakespeare favored the freedom of love, and the stability of society, turned against the family feud and felt hatred for the feudal aristocracy