Where did The Fault in Our Stars come from?
本文作者： 21ST
If you know Shakespeare, you may recognize the words that make up the title of Green’s novel. The title of The Fault in Our Stars echoes (仿效) famous words in one of the English author’s plays. It is not Romeo and Juliet, though, but Julius Caesar. This is a play about the assassination (刺杀) of Julius Caesar by the “good men” Cassius and Brutus. In the play, Cassius says to Brutus: “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, / But in ourselves, that we are underlings (下属).” Cassius means that he and Brutus are not fated (注定) to anything. Their problem is that they are “underlings”, or lacking in power. They were not destined (注定的) to fail. In his title, Green turns Shakespeare’s meaning upside down. He says that the fault is in our stars. This must be about Augustus and Hazel, whose illnesses might be said to be fated. It is this that makes them similar to Shakespeare’s “star-crossed lovers”, the teenagers Romeo and Juliet.
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