The Causes of Tragic Marriages and Love in Maugham's Works - from the Perspective of Historical Background

摘要

As a productive writer, Maugham creates numerous love stories in his lifetime writing, but most of them end in tragedies. In fact, the tragedies are not only caused by the author's personal experience, technique of writing as well as the artistic conception, but mostly by the historical background. From the perspective of historical background, the paper mainly analyzes the causes of tragic marriages and love in Maugham's works.