Image of Women between Tang Xianzu’s The Peony Pavilion and Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice.doc

PAGE  汤显祖的《牡丹亭》和莎士比亚的 《威尼斯商人》中女性形象的比较研究 A Comparative Study of the Image of Women between Tang Xianzu’s The Peony Pavilion and Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice Abstract: Both Tang Xianzu and Shakespeare were the greatest dramatists in the same age. Tang Xianzu was called “China’s Shakespeare”. Du Liniang in The Peony pavilion was one of the most successful, typical and impressed woman in Tang Xianzu’s works, so is Portia in The Merchant of Venice in Shakespeare’s works. They were both beautiful, clever and brave enough to seek the true love; they also had to come to terms with the social system at that time. There were many differences between their character features, experiences of life, love opinions, etc. Such as Portia didn’t obey her father’s rules blindly, but Du Liniang did it; Portia had met many men in her early life, but Du Liniang only met two men before she met her lover, one was her father, the other was her teacher; Du Liniang had did nothing for her love but Portia did her best to protect her love. Anyhow, they were the new women in their age. The women’s self-awareness of them helped them found their true love and acquired their happiness. Key words: comparative study; the image of women; Du Liniang; Portia 摘　要：汤显祖和莎士比亚是同一时期著名的剧作家。汤显祖更被称为“中国的莎士比亚”。 《牡丹亭》中的杜丽娘是汤显祖塑造的最成功，最典型，最令人印象深刻的女性形象之一；《威尼斯商人》中的鲍西娅在莎士比亚塑造的女性形象中有同等地位。她们美丽聪慧，敢于追求真爱，都同样被当时的社会制度所束缚。但同时她们在性格特点，生活经历，爱情观等方面却有所不同，比如说杜丽娘盲目地遵从父亲的命令，鲍西娅没有；杜丽娘在碰到她的爱人之前，只见过她的父亲和老师两位男性，但是鲍西娅在碰到她的爱人之前就已经认识了很多异性；鲍西娅用尽全力的保护她的爱情，杜丽娘却只是听天由命，等等。但是不管如何，她们都同样是她们那个年代的女性先驱。女性自我意识的觉醒让她们寻到了自己的真爱，获得了幸福。 关键词：比较研究；女性形象；杜丽娘；鲍西娅 Contents Introduction…………………………………………………………………….1 A. Introduction to Tang Xianzu and Shakespeare……………………………..1 1. The introduction to their living age………………………………………1 2. The introduction to Tang Xianzu…………………………………………1 3. The introduction to Shakespeare…………………………………………2 B. The background of The Peony Pavilion and The Merchant of Venice…….3 1. The background of The Peony Pavilion………………………