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As a result, he drank the poison. After several minutes, Juliet woke up but she also killed herself for love. These three sudden changes took place closely, nearly without any intermission.
Juliet’s cousin, Tybalt was so arbitrary that Romeo had reached the end of his forbearance and killed him without choices, which seemed to happen by chance. In fact, it was inevitable at the background of the family feud. This first sudden change made the story develop quickly. And the leading roles had to face the reality from then on. Therefore, every action, every sudden change would become the background of the next matter. They pushed the story ahead, made the conflict sharper and sharper. So facing every sudden change, Romeo and Juliet took corresponding measures until the play conflict burst out sharply, reaching its peak. This love story only lasted for four days. The first day, Romeo and Juliet met in a dance party and fell in love with each other at first sight. Then there were three sudden changes in the following three days. The plots of the story were quite well-knitted, and the quick pace of its development corresponds to the character features of Romeo and Juliet, energetic and fast-moving.
4.2 The development of conflict in The Butterfly Lover
The Chinese were an implicit people at that time. Most of the traditional Chinese would not express their feeling directly[8][P7]. And The Butterfly Lover was from the folk legends. Therefore, the development of the conflict went about at a snail’s pace, just like Zhu’s love to Liang. Distinguished with the sudden changes in Romeo and Juliet, there were not any sudden changes in The Butterfly Lover, from beginning to the end, which made the conflict of the play develop slowly.
Both the feelings and actions of the leading roles developed step by step. And there were some intermissions between their actions. The complete story lasted for more than three years, beginning from Zhu going to school and ending by their becoming butterflies. During the three years, so many things happened. Of course, the play plots were not as close as Romeo and Juliet’s. And the conflict was not so tense like Romeo and Juliet’s, either.
4.3 The different endings of the two plays
The endings of Romeo and Juliet and The Butterfly Lover seemed to be the same, but in fact, they were quite different. The Butterfly Lover was a love tragedy. It reflected the contradictions existing between the advanced youth and the backward social system. But it did not deject people after they enjoyed it. On the contrary, it stirred up people’s courage and confidence to pursue freedom and happiness, for it ended the love story with a romantic plot: Liang and Zhu became two butterflies upon death. They flied in the blue and bright sky together, a beautiful rainbow hanging in the sky, thousands of kinds of flowers sending out wafts of delicate fragrance. What a beautiful picture it was! How could a person feel sad at such pretty scenery? Of course not. On the other hand, people grieved at the end of Romeo and Juliet. Both lovers won their love, but with the sacrifice of their lives. At the same time, the two families turned toward each other and swore friendship and peace，and the lament entangled people for a long time. People cannot help feeling sad and tearful when the play finished. The end of The Butterfly Lover changed the basic atmosphere of the play. By contrast, the end of Romeo and Juliet added a sad atmosphere to the whole play[18][P490].
5. Conclusion
Love is an everlasting topic. Romeo and Juliet and The Butterfly Lover, these two pretty love stories, were both the odes to youth and love. They were just like two sisters, but lived in different countries. And because of the distinct cultures, there exist differences in theme presentation, characterization, and play construction. With this further investigation of these differences, we gain a more direct view of the conflict between love and feudalism. Meanwhile, it will surely help strengthen us in our pursuit of love[19][P28].
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