Explore The Conflict Between Sense And Sensibility: Between Romeo And Juliet And The Peony Pavilion

Chinese and western dramatic history has countless treasures. But in the power ofthe great love, criticized the feudal the hypocrisy of common courtesy, there are manysimilar works, including The Peony Pavilion and Romeo and Juliet as “twin flower”ofthe love tragedy in the end of16th century. By the ancient and modern, The PeonyPavilion with break through the feudal ethical code cage “Love“strength, touchedChinese and foreign numerous readers. Romeo and Juliet create a fearless under thefeudal autocratic parents love story, touched the hearts of every reader, thus can’t helpto sad.Although Shakespeare and Tang xianzu was not in the same space, but in terms ofthe two works, from the writer’s life era to the literature thought, from the theme of theshow to plot setting, there are striking similarities. That is to say, no matter from thesubjective thinking and objective environment, they are comparable. Especially thetwo works of happen to coincide in the conflict between sense and sensibility, the morereason, more worthy.This paper propose based on the text of the two works, mainly uses comparativeliterature parallel comparison method, the system has five parts to explore the conflictbetween sense and sensibility of the two works,as well as the similarities anddifferences of and research the causes of the similarities and differences.The first part is the introduction. Details about the research status at home andabroad, and points out that the deficiency on research of the two works, on the basis ofthis proposed research topic of this paper, and an overview of the research methods andresearch content of this article, expound the related concepts of the conflict betweensense and sensibility.The second part for the class and heterogeneityl analysis. Through the two worksand writers literary background, the comparison of style two aspects to analyze itsclass. They are born in the late16th century love tragedy, are using the romanticism toshow the conflict between sense and sensibility. Again through the conflict betweensense and sensibility of the two works of two aspects of form and content to illustrate its heterogeneity. Purpose of The Peony Pavilion is criticized the feudal ethical code,the overall temperament complicated depressed; Romeo and Juliet mainly to free love,the overall temperament is simple and clear.The third part is the conflict between sense and sensibility compared thesimilarities and differences. Mainly from the theme of the rheological, structurearrangement, plot setting, theme and image selection, characterization, languageexpression and so on seven aspects detailed argument the conflict between sense andsensibility of the two works.The fourth part is seeking cultural roots for the similarities and differencesconflict in the Chinese and western tragedy. From ethical norm, western humanismthoughts, literary thoughts, religious and philosophical ideas, era environment andtragedy aesthetic style, to analyze the six aspects to specific causes of the difference inthe conflict between sense and sensibility.The fifth part conclusion. Through research, the author put forward in respect forthe original theme, on the basis of ideological and cultural connotation, combined withthe time development, gives new understanding and creation, in order to continue thevitality of classical tragedy. In this paper, we analysis the seven species as well as thesix major cause of the similarities and differences, to the future of Chinese and westerntragedy research is of great significance.