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to accept him as a husband. But instead of cheering Juliet, this news served but to increase her misery. She perplexed her mother by her plain distress. She refused to marry Paris. And her excuses made her parents exasperated. It seemed to her father that she was putting obstacles in the way of her own good fortune. So he sternly ordered her to be ready by Thursday. In her extremity, J本论文由英语论文网 www.51lunwen.org整理提供uliet decided to seek help of the kind priest. She said there was nothing she would not face, even the death by her own hands, rather than give up Romeo and marry Paris.
In order to be together with Romeo, Juliet took the medicine bravely on the eve of the wedding day and lost consciousness. Romeo got the news of her “death” and felt an extremity of despair. He thought he would have no joy when Juliet was dead. So he kissed her and then drank the poison. When Juliet came to herself, she found her Romeo was dead, so she killed herself with a dagger. This climax of the conflict resulted in this pair winning their love, but with the sacrifice of their lives.

2.2 The conflict in The Butterfly Lover
As to The Butterfly Lover, ideal love was also impossible. For in traditional China, the young people should obey their parents as to the marriage, especially for a young lady in a respectable feudal family.
Although Zhu was an outstanding woman in the feudal China, with her courage to pursue free life and ideal love, she faced an environment armed with a deeply-rooted ideology of male-chauvinism, which barred her from realizing her dreams[1][P101].
Therefore, going to school for learning, which is a simple thing today, was quite difficult even prohibitive for a woman at that time. She could only succeed in her wish by disguising herself as a young man. When Zhu asked for studying in school like other boys, her sister-in-law created difficulties for her even ridiculed her, saying Zhu would lose her chastity during the period. Then Zhu had to put a flower into a flower vase and swear that if she behaved improperly, the flower would die, and if not, it would keep alive until she came back. Later on, she went to school. But her sister –in-law did not give up, she put some boiled water into the vase in the hope that the flower would die at once. Fortunately, her plot failed, the flower grew more and more beautiful. This episode before the later love tragedy signified in advance the huge feudal pressure on Zhu[2][P34]. In such an environment, Zhu’s pursuit of love was not like Romeo and Juliet’s. Zhu fell in love with Liang, but because of the feudalism as well as her family status, Zhu could not show her love openly. Compared with Romeo and Juliet, she was brought up to be reserved. Therefore, her love to Liang could only be developed little by little, slowly and subconsciously.
Zhu fell in love with Liang, without revealing her true identity. She invited him to visit his home and meet his younger sister (Zhu herself). Throughout all this time, Liang was completely oblivious to the fact that Zhu was in fact a young woman who fell hopelessly in love with him. When the time came for them to return to their respective villages, Zhu tried in vain, to let Liang know the truth. Liang fell in love with his classmate's female form; and promised to return to marry her. When 本论文由英语论文网 www.51lunwen.org整理提供Zhu returned home, her father had already arranged a different suitor for her and prepared to marry her o