La Traviata is the heroine in La Traviata written by French writer Alexandre Dumas in the19th century, while Du Shiniang is the heroine in the famous three-character novel Du Shiniang's Wrath Box compiled by Feng Menglong, a writer of Ming Dynasty in China. La Traviata takes sadness as the main line and denounces the darkness of the capitalist system. Du Shiniang's Anger Box takes anger as a literary eye and denounces the evil of feudal ethics. Du Shiniang and La Traviata are both prostitutes, and they are both typical prostitutes in literary images. Although they are bathed in different cultures, live in different countries, speak different languages and have different personalities, they have experienced almost the same tragic fate. They are unwilling to be at the mercy of fate, longing for freedom and pursuing sincere love, but unfortunately they have become the playthings of fate. * * *' s identity and similar tragic fate make these two characters have reference significance for comparative reading. This paper will make a preliminary discussion and comparison on the causes of their life tragedies.

Keywords: La Traviata Du Shiniang's tragic fate and social character

Dumas put Margaret, a famous Parisian prostitute, and La Traviata in the19th century in the gallery of world literature. As early as 200 years ago, the famous poem "Du Shiniang's Wrath Box" compiled by Feng Menglong, a writer of the Ming Dynasty in China, also shaped a famous prostitute Du Shiniang, who was celebrated through the ages. Although China and the West have met for more than 200 years, Du Shiniang and La Traviata, both famous prostitutes in Kyoto, have very similar fates. People in the romantic Jianghu who were once all the rage were all noble in soul but mired in mud, ostensibly extravagant and dissolute, with inner pain, and longed to return to the track of "normal people", all of which ended in a tragic ending. One was that the treasure chest with inestimable value was buried in the middle of the river, and the other was extravagant but actually ruined.

I. Tragedy

Since ancient times, there have been tragic factors and tragedies. On the road of life, everyone will experience all kinds of tragic experiences, and they will tell their tragic fate in various ways. Tragedy is the conflict between the protagonist and the real environment because he insists on justice or positive progress. In the conflict, the hero realizes the eternal value of spiritual life because of the destruction and destruction of his perceptual life, thus arousing tragic feelings and purifying people's hearts and spirits. Tragedy can best express the inner life movement of contradiction and struggle. From the limited individuals, we can see the infinite glorious universe, and show the invincible greatness of human beings with the small strength of individuals.

Du Shiniang's Box was written in Wanli. Li Jia, a rich boy, met Du Shiniang when he visited the school. They have a good relationship. Du Shiniang helped the Li family at his own expense and got rid of it. On the way home by boat, they met Sun Fu, a wealthy businessman. Sun Fu took a fancy to Du Shiniang's beauty and offered to buy him and be a concubine with his daughter. Li Jia agreed to Sun Fu's proposal. Du Shiniang was heartbroken when he learned about it. He angrily denounced Li Jia and Sun Fu, threw the priceless treasure chest into the water, drowned himself, and safeguarded the independence and dignity of women at the cost of his life.

La Traviata truly and vividly describes the story of a girl who is as pure and beautiful as Baishan tea in appearance and heart and is destroyed to death. Margaret, the hero, is a country girl and looks very beautiful. She came to Paris to make a living and unfortunately became a prostitute. Rich young people sincerely love her, which arouses her yearning for love life. However, armand's father opposed the marriage and forced her to leave armand. Armand didn't know the truth, looked for opportunities to humiliate her, and finally let her die of poverty and illness. The works are full of rich lyrical colors and tragic atmosphere, and have touching artistic charm.

Du Shiniang is beautiful and intelligent, but she is a brothel. She is obsessed with true love and pursues individuality, equality, dignity and self-worth in love. However, how can an empty feeling resist the double blow of feudal ethics and money? Therefore, her wisdom, hard work and struggle brought her only two ways, either to dust or to commit suicide. La Traviata is a pure and beautiful woman, but also a depraved and unfortunate woman. She lives by laughing, lives by others, and indulges in frivolity and debauchery. When she meets true love, she would rather sacrifice herself for the person she loves to fulfill her lover and family.

Second, the generation of tragic fate.

Du Shiniang and La Traviata are two different types of prostitutes in the East and the West. They have the same tragic fate from their career to their death. Their fate ended in tragedy because their misfortune and death showed certain social contradictions and inevitability, and their human requirements were actually impossible to realize under the social conditions at that time. Their tragedy is both a social tragedy and a personality tragedy.