浅析中西方不同地爱情观

Acknowledgements

My deepest gratitude goes first and foremost to Professor Yang Ling, my supervisor, for her constant encouragement and useful suggestions on my thesis. I am deeply grateful of her help in the completion of this thesis. Without her consistent and illuminating instruction, this thesis could not have reached its present form.

Second, I am also greatly indebted to all the other tutors and teachers for their direct and indirect help to me.

Last, my thanks would go to my beloved family for their loving considerations and great confidence in me all through these years. I also owe my sincere gratitude to my friends and my fellow classmates who give me their help and time in helping me work out my problems during the difficult course of the thesis.

Abstract

There are more different views on love between Chinese and western, which reflected in literatures and films. love is the enduing theme of human beings, which is the peculiar character and one of the best behaviors for human beings. Meanwhile, the love words are considered to be the most beautiful words of human beings. But because of different traditional culture, different mode of thinking, different racial character, Chinese and Westerners have so many different points on love. Through comparison, discuss the similarities and differences of Chinese -Western view on love in the Hawthorn Love and Titanic.

Key words: Culture difference, Chinese and Western views on love

摘要

中西方爱情观有极大不同，这在文学作品和影视作品得到了反映。爱情是人类永恒的主题，表达爱慕之情是人类最美好的行为之一, 而表达爱情的语言被认为是人类最美好的语言。尽管在爱的路途中双方都面临诸多阻隔，但双方彼此追求真爱的心会永远长青！由于传统文化、思维方式、民族性格等不同, 中西方在对爱的理解和表达上表现出较大的差异。本文通过对比分析电影《山楂树之恋》和《泰坦尼克号》所体现的不同中西方爱情观。

关键词：文化差异，中国爱情观，西方爱情观

Contents

Acknowledgements (i)

Abstract (ii)

摘要 (iii)

1 Introduction (1)

2 Literature Review (2)

3 Analyses on Different Love Views between Titanic and Hawthorn Love (5)

3.1 The Similarities (5)

3.1.1 The same structure and the story content (6)

3.1.2 The same end of two stories (6)

3.1.3 The same fate of the Heroine (6)

3.1.4 The same symbols (6)

3.2 The Contrast.................................................. . (6)

3.2.1The expression of love in different ways (6)

3.2.2The different view on sex (7)

3.2.3 The different view on

love....... . . (9)

3.2.4 The different view of marriage (10)

4 Conclusion (13)

Bibliography (14)

Analysis on Different Love Views between Titanic and

Hawthorn Love

1 Introduction

Titanic, the ship of dreams, also known as Unsinkable, sank after its departure on April 10th, 1912. And on its epic journey a poor artist named Jack Dawson and a rich girl Rose DeWitt Bukator fell in love, until one night their fairytale love turned into the struggle for survival or being dead at the bottom of the North Atlantic. Rose left her fiancée Caledon Hockley for this poor artist, but when the Titanic collided with the Iceberg on April 14th, 1912, and then when the ship sank on April 15th, 1912 at 2:20 in the morning, Jack died and Rose survived. When Rose was saved by one lifeboat that came back, she was taken to the Carpathia with 700 people saved in the lifeboats. The Carpathia Immigration Officer asked Rose what her name was and she said her name was Rose Dawson. And 84 years later Rose Calvert is 100 years old and she tells her grand daughter Lizzy Calvert the whole story from departure until the death of Titanic on its first and last voyage. And to Rose Titanic and her real love of in her life Jack Dawson is all an existence inside her memory.