爱情是人生永恒的主题,也是艺术的永恒主题。而在西方宗教的禁欲主义压制下,爱情往往带有悲剧色彩,西方文学中的爱情是在宗教氛围笼罩下的描写。无论是中国还是西方都俯拾即是,“因为爱情和婚姻实质是一个民族深层文化的体现”,反过来文化背景的差异又影响、限制着一个民族的恋爱方式和婚姻习俗,决定着男女主人公对爱情与婚姻所采取的行动。本文通过英国莎士比亚名剧《罗密欧与朱丽叶》,美国著名作家霍桑的《红字》,分析这两部爱情悲剧对民族深层文化的体现 Love is the eternal theme of life, but also the eternal theme of art. Under the restraints of the asceticism of Western religions, love tends to be tragic. The love in western literature is a description of the religious atmosphere. Both China and the West are both abreast of “because the essence of love and marriage is the embodiment of a deep culture of the nation,” which in turn influences the cultural background and limits the love and marriage customs of a nation, determining the relationship between love and marriage Marriage action taken. This article analyzes the deep love of these two love tragedies to the deep culture of the nation through the “Scarlet Letter” written by the famous American writer Hawthorne and the famous Shakespearean opera Romeo and Juliet