Origin: Romeo and Juliet by British playwright william shakespeare.
The play tells the story of Juliet, the daughter of Italian aristocrat Capulet, and Romeo, the son of Montague, who really love each other and swear to depend on each other, but are blocked by the feud between the two generations.
Although Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy, the love between two young men and women is not sad in itself. They not only love each other, but also boldly pursue love at the expense of their lives. Their love power makes them dare to face family hatred and challenge obstacles in life. They are pursuing a new way of life. They are not afraid to be the lambs of atonement, so their death is the end of life, but they have won morally. Finally, the two hostile families reconciled.
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The Creative Background of Romeo and Juliet
In the era of Shakespeare's life, Italy and many European countries were carrying out an ideological and cultural movement, that is, the Renaissance. During this period, the feudal society in Europe gradually disintegrated, and the capitalist mode of production was bred in the matrix of feudal society. Humanism is the ideological weapon of the bourgeois anti-feudal struggle in the Renaissance and the central idea of bourgeois progressive literature in this period.
Its main contents are as follows:
First, oppose theocracy with human nature;
Second, emancipate against asceticism with personality;
Third, oppose obscurantism with reason.
Among them, personality liberation is aimed at asceticism advocated by feudal society, which requires working people to restrain their desires, give up their struggle and give up secular happiness. It affirms secular life and thinks that secular happiness is above everything else, and the purpose of life is to pursue personal freedom and personal happiness. Shakespeare's early works mainly promote this humanistic thought, and Romeo and Juliet is a love tragedy with anti-feudal consciousness under this background.