英文摘要 |
The story of ”Don Juan” has been interpreted in various ways since it first appeared in early 17th century Spain. The present paper addresses the two most fundamental issues in the history of its interpretation, through the comparison and analysis of Mozart's Don Giovanni and E. T. A. Hoffmann's ”Don Juan.” One is to look at the eternal conflict between the instinctual desires of a person and the morals and norms of society, in which, to keep the human world going, the former is eventually suppressed by the later. The other emphasizes the psychological depth of Don Juan, who loses hope in finding the essence of true love and becomes resentful and cynical, choosing to use amorous affairs as his means of retribution. The two issues present humanism's introspection about life to which there is no alternative, and individualism's inward tendency to escape reality, respectively. |