A Comparison between Such a Love and Two Blue Birds

“在天愿作比翼鸟，在地愿为连理枝”常常用来比喻世间的恩爱夫妻，然而，两位来自不同国家，不同时代的作家却探讨了同一个主题：中年人的婚姻感情困惑，在日本作家渡边淳一的≪如此之爱≫和英国作家劳伦斯的≪两只蓝鸟≫两篇小说中，两对原本相爱的夫妻，面对平淡如水的婚后生活，逐渐心生倦意，开始寻求婚外激情。两位作家展示了男女主人公在情感和理智挣扎中的反思，体现了他们对人的精神生活的关注，表达了他们对婚姻伦理的看法和追问。他们认为世界上没有永恒不变的事物。无论是劳伦斯还是渡边淳一的作品都反映出这样一个事实：男女婚姻情感的悄然越轨，其实是他们对抗平淡生活的一种叛逆表现。如何解决婚后平淡生活成为两部作品探求的焦点。

The phrase “to fly together in the sky, two birds on the same wing, to grow together on the earth, two branches of one tree” is often used to refer to the affectionate husband and wife. However, two writers from different countries and different times explore the same motif in their works: puzzlement in marriage. In the novel Such a Love by Japanese writer Junichi Watanabe and the story Two Blue Birds by English writer D.H Lawrence two pairs of married couples who had loved each other gradually get tired of the boring life and begin to have affairs. Both Lawrence and Junichi Watanabe reveal the protagonists’ struggle between emotion and reason and embody their concern to the spiritual life of human being, express their views towards marriage. They think there are no permanent things in the world and the extramarital affairs of the protagonists are in fact the rebellion to the boring routines. How to deal with the tough problem becomes the researching focus of their works .