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Similarities And Similarities Between Romeo And Juliet And Thunderstorm

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William Shakespeare was regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. Let alone his masterpieces, which possess a great influence to numerous both domestic and exotic players as well as writers. Romeo and Juliet, as his representative household tragic masterpiece, is well-known all over the world. Meanwhile, the prestigious Chinese dramatist, Cao Yu, also acquired enormous influence from Shakespeare, which was demonstrated in his several plays. Thunderstorm is the most acquainted work for majority individuals including me. There already have a great deal of outstanding articles about the study of these two dramas respectively. Standing on the shoulders of these excellent predecessors’ fulfilments, I reckon that it will be novel as well as valuable to compare the similarities as well as differences of tragic theme in Romeo and Juliet and Thunderstorm. …show more content…

Firstly, they all demonstrate destructive love. In Shakespeare’s drama, albeit Romeo and Juliet can be regarded as being together forever, they pay their lives as prices in the end. And in Thunderstorm, after knowing all the truth, Chou Ping, Ssu Feng as well as Chou not only lost their love, but their lives. Secondly, several plots of these two dramas possess coincidences. For instance, whom Romeo kills was no one but from a family of feud. At the same time, although several characters know that Juliet is thanatosis and try their best to inform Romeo, but all is too late, the sad ending has been already settled down. And in Thunderstorm, the daughter of Shihping becomes the servant of the Chou family and falls in love with the younger master of this family just as what her mother did in the past. What’s more, the endings are tragic, both of their protagonists are

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