罗密欧与朱丽叶的爱情与现代爱情的对比.doc

a comparison between love of romeo and juliet and modern lovebyzou shanmay, 2012hubei engineering universityabstractromeo and juliet is one of great playwright shakespears famous palys . in this story, shakespear showed us what is true love on the earth. love between remeo and juliet is pure and noble, their courage of willing to sacrifice for love moves and encourages generation to generation. love is one of the finest affecions of our human being, its a miraculous element that makes people happy and sad. everyone has the freedom of love, and everyone has the right to have the taste of it. the so-called love must have romantic factors and pure spirit. and most importantly, it must be without any purpose ,purity and no impurity .however , this is indeed what our mordern people lack of and is the most moving part. this thesis stand at the point of the love between romeo and juliet to deeply analysis the background of the tragedy, and comparied with modern love ,to find out their similarities and differences, thus to study what is love and what kind of love is true love. furthermore, on the basis of this elaborating the essence of love, connotation and meaning of love education among college students.key words：romeo and juliet ; modern love; similarities;differences罗密欧与朱丽叶的爱情和现代爱情的对比摘 要罗密欧与朱丽叶是伟大的戏剧家莎士比亚流传最广的戏剧之一。在这部作品中，莎士比亚向人们展示了什么才是真正的爱情。罗密欧与朱丽叶之间的爱情纯洁而高尚。他们为爱而甘愿做出牺牲的勇气感动和鼓舞着一代又一代人。爱情是人世间最美好的情感之一,是世人为之欣喜为之忧的奇妙情愫。每一个人都有恋爱的自由,都有品尝爱情滋味的权利。而所谓爱情，就是一定要有浪漫的情愫，肤身的精神。更重要的是，不带任何目的，纯粹而无杂质。然而这正是我们现代人所缺少的，也正是最打动人心的地方。本文则通过前人已有的研究成果对罗密欧与朱丽叶的爱情进行深入分析和总结，深入探析这一爱情悲剧的背景，并且将其与现代爱情做对比，探讨其中的相似性和差异性，看看到底什么是爱情，什么样的爱情才是真正的爱情，并在此基础上阐述了爱情的实质和大学生爱情教育的内涵及意义。关键词：罗密欧与朱丽叶；现代爱情；相似性；差异性； contents1. definition of love12. love of romeo and juliet23. a summary of modern love44. a comparison between remeo and juliets love and modern love54.1 similarities54.2 differences74.2.1 different backgrounds74.2.2different aims84.2.3 different endings105. conclusion10bibliography131. definition of lovelove, for thousands of years, always being regarded as a symbol of holy and purity. love is great, it embodies a higher state of mental life; love is pure, it can not be tolerate anything false and turbidly; besides , love is mysterious, which makes a great number of men and women addicted ,and even pay their life.love is one of the eternal themes of peoples social life. ever since theres human being, theres self-consciousness of people, affection world, and love is concluded in the rich world. love is an important field of peoples moral life, and also an important content of everybodys life road. it is not only related to the happiness of real life, but also reflects the civilization degree of society and the standard of social morality. all along history, people always look forward to love, create love, and write poem to eulogize love.there is a poem about love, “what is love? how lucky he is whoever understands it what can love do? i know, i will die for it.” maybe there is no need to die for love, but what is love after all? how many people understand it?thousands of years ago, an ancient philosopher socrates, had ever put forward a questionwhat is love? and answered with famous words of a love teacher, which is love is neither an immortal matter nor mortal thing, but exists between the two, it is a great elf, and just all kinds of elf, love are an agent between soul and earthling.”thousands of years later, contemporary philosopher rolandbatt still emphasis in lovers words that “i really really want to know what love is on earth.”from my understanding of love, it is a feeling of falling in love and hearts correspond, an impulse of a unity of two person. it is a spontaneous passion. once the passion deduce, talking about it is something of mist, for that love either is the incarnation, or is nothing. and when passion love comes into being, the lovely points of the loved one are exaggerated, so that the same person are definitely different between the eyes of loved and no loved one. thus can burst express the opinion again and again that all people who fall in love love not a real person but one imaged in their own hearts, their sense themselves.when love someone, honesty is needed. only two honest hearts can link together. when all of you done in love come from honesty, the half one can touch them deeply, and know your heart from it, because honesty is the foundation of love.when love someone, lenience is needed. as one love begins, the two should learn how to run it, your love will be happy if you can do it well, or it will take great number of consequence. lenience is always needed in love, there are some kinds of friction when getting along with each other, if you dont have a lenient heart, and i think it sad.when love someone, frankness is needed. two frank hearts can make we know each other. be frank, a suspicion is deduced, but a trust increasing.when love someone, responsibility is needed. maybe responsibility gives us a feeling of hard, but it is indispensable in love. lovers should know clearly about responsibility, and shouldnt heart the other side without the basic of love.in true love, the whole heart should be put, so do specialty and fair. to move youre beloved by real heart, thus, a real, good, beautiful love story can be written.2. love of romeo and juliet romeo and juliet is a famous tragic love story of shakespeares early work. it depicts the story of a pair of couples man and woman to be dismantled and then both sentimental.the story took place in verona cityan attractive little city in the north of italy. at that time there were two prominent familiesthe capulet family, who the support of the holy roman emperor, and the montague family, who respected the pope. the factions struggle made the two mutually hostile, implacable, and developed grievances deep feud. however, all of this can not stop the pace of love, the beautiful and passionate capulets daughter juliet and handsome dashing montague son romeo fell in love at their first sight, they ignored the familys objections and got married, the wedding was held under the auspices of the kindly priest lawrence .happiness is always short, romeo was driven out of the city by his family, juliets father forced her to marry an earl, she did not dare to go against the family, and even she did not want to betray her lover. priest lawrence helped her again, so she swallowed sleeping pills as feign death in order to procrastinate time. believed that juliet was died, the whole capulet family made a funeral for her sadly. romeo was just in the back to the city, being in a misery of the truth, he was so sorrowful that he drank poison and fell down on the side of juliet. so surprised juliet was, when regained consciousness seeing that her love was just on her side. but at the time romeo told her that he was dying, juliet was heartbroken and could not bear to live alone, she decided to end her own life by romeos dagger without any hesitation, the two embrace love ascended to heaven. the great sorrow awakened two hostile families; the blood didnt flow in vain for their loved ones, the two finally reconciled.johnhances had ever wrote in the prologue of romeo and juliet, “romeo and juliet is a love tragedy of young people, no play can embody the fierce and ideal passion of young people as it. the readers being addicted to love can find out the most ideal verse to express their mood in the play, and hope those who dont love deeply can be as the former after reading. this universal desire of love and organic combination of self-devoting spirit and desire of love can express themselves perfectly in this playwright.” and this is the great mental heritage that romeo and juliet leaves to us, and will nourish our human beings soul continuously.although romeo born in a great feudal family, he didnt inherit the feudal traditional thought, yet he complied with the trend of age, betrayed his feudal family and became a unswerved humanistic people; he was honest, brave, educational, capable, he had a firm heart of universal love; he persuade a autonomous, free and wonderful love life. even though he loves the enemys daughter, he never cowered. he didnt have the prejudice of family status, once he loved juliet, he regarded couplets as his own family, and hoped to untie the old grudge all heart; he was loyal to love, and willing to be exiled to other place for love and lover, even to end his own life.juliet was a 13-year-old noble young lade, but she was brave, strong, wisdom. breaking heavy restrict of great family, she darling fall in love with romeo and entrust her life to love. knowing theres no hope after romeos exile, she refused to marry noble young pales. with her wisdom, she lied to her father many times, and took sleeping pills at the sake of life; all of these were for realizing ideal love. she regarded love as important as life, at the death of romeo; she also ended her precious life. 3. a summary of modern lovemodern love likes the flexible and unpredicted clouds, which makes people more and more confused.modern love is composed of flowers. offering a bunch of flower is to offer a love, until now, the greatest love belongs to the one who own 999 roses, and that kind of love is amazing. the flower shop becomes the monopolization of young people to sell love, the love desire of young people expands rapidly, and flower shops grow up like the bamboo after the spring rain, which sell the most majestic affection of human beings and in the mean time take back the most valuable money. the rich people buy flowers and buy love at the same time, however ugly the buyer is, beautiful girls can only see the beautiful of the flowers and ignore other things. rich people can buy different flowers for different girls, and take back different taste of love. thom poor one who can not afford flowers cannot hope love, but to make plans when hoard enough money. maybe theres an important problem is ignored by people, which is the flowers in flower shops have been cut the roots, they have no origin, they are dead ones. why those people who are eager for love cant realize the difference? what does flower stand for? for money? for affection? for honesty? or for anything else?modern love has become a lightning war. know at the first day, embrace at the second day, mix at the third day. the painting of managua makes people slap the table and shout with praise, which is both bride and bridegroom wearing beautiful full dress stepped into the wedding room, “whats your name?” the bride asked her husband suddenly. what a good question it isthis is the romantic point of modern love. the other side of the lightning speed love combination is the rapid disintegration of it. even an anger, a rumor, an affair, an ignorance, a friction can break love into pieces, weak as glass.modern love has become pop music. how moved it is when being sung, “i cannot be without you, i cannot live without you.” in fact, this kind of songs can be sung to anybody. modern young peoples oath just like the pop music, believe it or not, it just is there. one day you watched couple on the tv (as yao chen and lin xiaosu), but the second day they divorced, all of your envy turn into misery. can you understand love? can you explain what love is? can love still be explained with immortal?betrayal has become the new theme of modern. modern love sweeps the third person into the dustbin of history, thus lover being a romantic word. the lover in peoples eyes is the real point of love, but the most obstacle of family. some knowledge people suggest canceling family to get back to nature, and theres no need to conceal when lover appears, instead, it can be the capital to show. inexpertly, they seem finding out the truth of lovetheres no true love in the world at all, but only the mutual attraction between men and women existing.does the tradition love step into error path? or modern love lost its way? 4. a comparison between romeo and juliets love and modern love4.1 similaritiesthere are a lot of patterns when love occurs, but no one can be compared with falling in love at the first sight. it is a characteristic of love. the meet of romeo and juliet begins their amazing and mysterious love. at the first sight of juliet, romeo was astonished, “o, she doth teach the torches to burn bright. juliet is the sun rising in the east. the brightness of her cheek would shame those stars. as day-light doth a lamp.” just before, he was in a gloomy of his single pine love, but now he signed, “my love before is fake but not true, and tonight i meet the one.” and juliets response was more immediate, “if he has married, tomb is my wedding bed.” seeing the two falls in love, i can nearly feel their passion.according to data in 2002 valentines day survey, the romantic affection as romeo and juliets meeting unexpectedly and being with each other at family party was liked by most italy lovers. besides as a latest survey shows the rate of first sight love of chinese reaches up to 66%. which is to suggest, that most love, both in ancient time and in modern world, are spontaneous, they are all come from the first impression. when two hot eyes meet each other, there must be some new fantastic story. especially when someone is at the low mood, or he (or she) is just break up with some guy, the first sight of love is more easily take place.as you know, people in love, like romeo and juliet, their mind are always simple; they can do everything for his (or her) love, even at the price of life. and they do everything is to get more love from the beloved one, to get closer to his (or her) heart. their aim is pure. the essence of love is nature. as a notion of ancient greece philosopher plato, love is only related to psyche, it is absolutely reject to sex desire, they have no relation at all, its a psychological support of men and women, it melt all the affection in the solicitude of the beloved one. and plato insists, mankind have two kinds of fertility, which is body fertility and internal spirit fertility. the former is the capability of continuing later generation. but the two gender love depend on flesh is not true love at all, only the internal spirit fertility can be called true love.on the whole, whenever in romeo and juliets love or in modern, the origins are the sameboth for pure love, a simple internal spirit affection. moreover, romeo and juliet witness the essencelove is love. and in my point of view, when the two fell in love, romeo was 16,but juliet just 13,as all for pure love, their minds are not mature enough, they dont know what true is, all of their behavior originate from an impulse of their deep heart. in fact, it is an instinct of animal, and is a hidden consciousness. which is that you will compare your mate to the one in your imagination, and mostly from appearance and temperament, the closer to your standard, the more attention you will pay. 4.2 differences4.2.1 different backgrounds the love story of romeo and juliet was written in 1590s. in 16th century, british were underpaying renaissance, humanism train of thought dominated in social cultural trains. humanism seeked for human liberation, upheld individual freedom, romeo and juliet seek for freedom of love just at the price of lives.at that time, england was a christian country; the reigning monarch of england was queen elizabeth i. all children were baptized, soon after they were born, into the church of england; they were taught the essentials of the christian faith, and instructed in their duty to god and to humankind. marriages were performed, and funerals conducted, only by the licensed clergy and in accordance with the churchs rites and ceremonies. attendance at divine service was compulsory; absences could be punished by fines. by such means, the authorities were able to keep some check on the populacerecording births, marriages, and deaths, being alert to any religious nonconformity, which could be politically dangerous; and ensuring a minimum of orthodox instruction through the official “homilies” which were regularly preached from the pulpits of all parish churches throughout the realm. following henry viiis break away from the church of rome, all people in england were able to hear the church services in their own language. the book of common prayer was used in every church, and an english translation of the bible was read aloud in public. the christian religion had never been so well taught before!however, stepping into 21st century, science and culture have entered a high speed era. house price, stock market, commodity price and too many realities perplex our modern people. love, a mankind affection, which has always been talked about and the most frequency word in discussion, is bond with more and more real conditions. with the liberation of the society, peoples minds also keep the pace. they pay they love not only to get love but to get more realities. thus people pay more attention to what they can get from love, money? power? or status? because they believe, in this materialistic world, its difficult to handle things without money and money; even its difficult to live in this world without them.and the new century gives more new styles of love. in modern society, people who know love as “the more you give, the richer i will be” like juliet is rare. what modern people want most is how to exchange through affection. love has already become the bargaining chip of someone, which can be only paid for get to the aim. it is difficult to find pure love in this materialistic world.a recent survey has already told us clearly peoples attitude toward love and bread (