Hard Love-The Comparison between Romeo and Juliet and Under the Hawthorn Tree

摘要

Although the two stories occurred under distinctive era with different social background, both of Romeo and Juliet and Under the hawthorn tree are, to some extent, regarded as tragic romance. From the perspective of humanism, the essay at⁃tempts to analyze the inevitability of the tragic love. At the background of European Renaissance, who declared that human born with right of pursuing happiness, freedom and equality; Chinese Cultural Revolution was an era which constrained the humanity by morality and law. Love is thought to be as an eternal topic. Under the circumstances of European Renaissance and Chinese Cultural Revolution, flipping the new chapters of arts’renovation, became the thruster of these two hard love stories.