1、2000 英文单词， 10500英文字符，中文 3600 字 文献出处： Casey T G. Mozarts Don Giovanni and the Invitation to Full FreedomJ. New Blackfriars, 2007, 88(1015):288299. Mozarts Don Giovanni and the Invitation to Full Freedom Thomas G. Casey SJ Abstract Mozarts operatic masterpiece Don Giovanni raises pivotal questions abo
2、ut freedom and society: should freedom be without constraints? Is absolute freedom possible? In certain key ways these concerns of Mozarts culture resonate with issues that preoccupy us today. Com- posed in 1787, during the final years of the liberal regime introduced by the Habsburg emperor Joseph
3、II, the opera reflects the shadow side of his “enlightened” reforms. The serial seducer Don Giovanni repre- sents a liberty that has degenerated into libertinism. The freedom that Don Giovanni wants to retain at all costs is merely freedom as the absence of physical constraint. In the contemporary w
4、orld many people aspire to a similarly riven freedom: they reject the dictates of external authority, and docilely submit to the promptings of instinctual drives. Christianity invites human beings to reach beyond themselves in love. Marriage exemplifies the self-giving of permanent commitment, and c
5、ontrasts starkly with Don Giovannis egoistic consumption and hasty disposal of women. Although the lyrics and plot of Mozarts opera never evoke the Trinity, the musical perfection of his work dances on the threshold of Revelation, and opens its hearers up to the liberating mystery of the freedom of
6、Trinitarian love. Keywords： Mozart, opera, freedom, marriage, Trinity. Introduction Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart may have been born over 250 years ago, but his music is so magical and fresh that it sounds like it was composed only yesterday. Christian thinkers have been glowing in their praise of him. In his pseudonymous work Either-Or the great Lutheran philosopher Sren Kierkegaard announced that with Don Giovanni Mozart had definitively entered the ranks of the immortals; to mark the 2
