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 Zhu returned home, her father had already arranged a different suitor for her and prepared to marry her off to a powerful noble's son. By the time Liang rushed to her home to seek her hand in marriage, it was too late. Her father's will had prevailed and she was betrothed.

It was not long before Liang succumbed and died of a broken heart. The conflict between ideal love and feudalism deprived them of their love and even lives.

2.3 The differences between these two conflicts
In these two plays, the leading roles’ pursuits of ideal love and marriage expressed the characters’ natural instincts[3][P6]. In Romeo and Juliet, the leading roles’ families were the representatives of the feudal power. They would fight on the street even when they just happened to meet each other, let alone permitting their posterity to love each other. Here are the sentences by Juliet’s father:
To go with Paris to Saint Peter’s church,
Or I will drag thee on a hurdle thither,
Out, you greensickness carrion! Out, you baggage!
You tallow-face![3][P30]
We can find that when Juliet refused to marry the man she did not love, her parents scolded her severely and threatened her to leave the family. Therefore, Juliet could resist her father with much less compunction than Zhu. This was why she was luckier than Zhu. For her family and Romeo’s were deadly enemies, but in their hearts they still had a dream, which was to escape with the help of the Catholic father, leaving their families, giving up their family names and living happily together with each other in another place forever[4][P49]. In order to realize this dream, they could do anything. And the conflict would be cleared away if they succeed.
In The Butterfly Lover, the environment they lived in was similar to Romeo and Juliet’s. What they faced was also a heavy feudal society. The difference was that Zhu could not resist her family strongly and completely like Juliet. Although her family forced her to marry the other young man Ma Wencai, that’s because they love Zhu. For in traditional feudal China, in people’s mind, including Zhu’s parents, marrying a rich family was good to Zhu, so they just persuaded Zhu time and time again with good intentions. Maybe this kind of love was not suitable for Zhu, but she could not refuse. Therefore, Zhu could not resist them like Romeo and Juliet. And this was why Zhu was more unfortunate than Romeo and Juliet. 英语作文