 Romance/Love: October 22, 2008 Issue [#2678] |
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Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.
Rumi
Hello, this is Joy , your guest editor. This week our subject is love and marriage.
Married couples who love each other tell each other a thousand things without talking.
Chinese proverb
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Welcome to the Romance/Love Newsletter
Most marriages start with romance, and most romances end in marriage. At times in literature, true love is made to end in marriage. No wonder, humanity loves romance and wants it to last forever.
As far as the romance genre goes, this trend of romantic love ending in marriage possibly started in 1740 with by Samuel Richardson's Pamela, which is considered the first real romance novel. Jane Austen, afterwards, developed this love and marriage idea further in probably the most successful love-marriage story of her time, Pride and Prejudice. Her other novels also dealt with the same subject, sometimes providing conflicts with the society and the customs of her time, and they furnished a satisfactory happy ending when her heroes and heroines won their love, despite many misunderstandings.
Victorian times were darker. Still, the moral code of marriage survived, even when the most leading fictional characters of the Victorian period had to face violence, tragedy, and passion. Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre managed to marry her love at the end, although her already married beloved tried to commit bigamy by tricking her into marriage at first. Yet, only legal marriage was acceptable to Jane.
Writers like the Bronte sisters--obsessed with the female pursuit of independence--have sewn the seeds of the ideas of acceptance and equality between the genders, It was these ideas that have lead to the suffragette movement later. Subsequently, when the women’s liberation took place, this freedom was reflected in romantic fiction, inside which, most of the time, love relationships ended in marriage. Even in our day, a love story that ends in marriage satisfies its readers the most.
The romance genre during the second half of the twentieth century started off with cookie-cutter stories that covered what women in general fantasized about: passionate attraction and love-making, love that is worthy of marriage, and children by the beloved mate. During the 1990’s and today, during the first decade of the twenty-first century, romance writers have broken off with the older, more melodramatic expectations of the romance genre publishers who used to push for titillating stories.
The love/romance literature of the last twenty years deals with what we--men and women--all want and need. The heroes and heroines of the modern times are not self-sacrificing, moony-eyed people anymore. They know what they want, and they can take control of their lives. The romance writers today pay more attention to good story construction, believable characters, and skillful use of the language. In addition, modern romance fiction is realistic and very believable, and not every love story ends in marriage.
I hope, with or without marriage, you all find love in your relationships and reflect that love in your work.
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In Writing.com, our writers hail love in marriage. Here are a few examples:
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monty31802 on 08-29-08
Very informative Newsletter Joy. Thanks for featuring my poem.
Monty
Thank you very much, Monty. I am glad you found the newsletter informative.
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