《伦德尔勋爵》是英国文学中的一篇通俗民谣。英格兰和苏格兰通俗民谣发端于十二世纪和十三世纪，十四、十五世纪走向成熟。通俗民谣由普通群众创作，并在其生活的苏格兰南部地区和英格兰与苏格兰边境地区广为流传。《伦德尔勋爵》讲述了一个谋杀的故事，由伦德尔勋爵和其母亲十段对话组成。 《陌上桑》是一首乐府诗。乐府诗在汉武帝统治时期产生。武帝建立专门的乐府机构来收集其统治地区的民间歌谣和民歌。乐府诗歌当中的许多作品也是由普通群众创作。他们生活在中国的农村地区。《陌上桑》由人物描写、罗敷和小吏以及使君的对话组成。诗歌描述了一个美丽女子的容貌，讲述了罗敷对使君无理求婚的反抗。 这两篇作品都来自于民间，并且都讲述了女性反抗的故事。然而，两则故事中存在着不同。首先，它们的关注点不同——《伦德尔勋爵》关注的是一个男性角色的死亡，从侧面叙述了女性的反抗，而《陌上桑》关注的是女主人公罗敷的直接反抗。其次，两个女主人公采取的反抗方式也有所不同。伦德尔勋爵的“真爱”是用一种恐怖的方式——下毒来拒绝他的，而罗敷则用一种幽默的方式来回绝使君——通过间接的夸张，罗敷赞扬了她丈夫的财富和社会地位，让使君自惭形秽。本文旨在通过比较两部作品，从社会的和历史的视角分析两位女主人公为何要反抗以及她们采取不同反抗方式的原因，并进一步分析为何两部作品会在叙事焦点上有所不同。最后得出结论：相似的社会地位是两位女性采取反抗的原因，而两者采取的不同的反抗方式以及叙述所采取的不同视角则是由不同的封建社会背景造成的。

Lord Randal is a popular ballad in British literature. English and Scottish Popular Ballads appeared in the 12th and the 13th century and became popular in the 14th and the 15th century. They are created by and diffused among common people living in Southern Scotland and the Border. Lord Randal tells a murder story and consists of ten dialogues between Lord Randal and his mother. Moshangsang is a Yuefu poem. Yuefu poems appeared during the reign of Emperor Wudi (156–87 B.C.) in Han Dynasty. The emperor set up an organization to collect lyrics and ballads from all around his realm. Many works in Yuefu poems are created by and diffused among common people living in rural areas in China. Moshangsang is composed of descriptions of people and the dialogues between Luofu, the female protagonist and an inferior official and Shijun. The poem describes the beauty of a young lady and her resistance to the rude proposal of the Shijun (an official in power). These two pieces of works are both created by common people and they are both about the resistance of the female characters. However, there are differences between these two stories. Their focuses are different – Lord Randal focuses on the dying of the male character, depicting the resistance in an indirect way, whereas Moshangsang focuses on the direct resistance of Luofu, the female protagonist. The ways of resistance of the two female characters are different, too. Lord Randal’s “true love” refused him in a horrible way – through poison and murder, whereas Luofu refused Shijun in a humorous way – through indirect exaggeration of the wealth and the social status of her husband, Luofu made Shijun embarrassed and not as good as her husband. This paper tends to compare these two pieces of works and explore why these two female protagonists take different ways of resistance and why these two pieces of works have different focuses from a social and historical perspective, and bring the conclusion that the similar social status of women is the cause of their resistance, and different historical background of feudality is the cause of the difference in the ways of resistance and the difference in narrative perspectives.