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“Jane Austen wrote six great romances, and no one died for love in any of them.” (Page 108) Does this make them more realistic, less exciting, or both? Does dying for love in novels always have to be taken literally or can we interpret it figuratively? Isn’t that the fun part of novels? That they can be novel because those things don’t happen in real life (much like Grigg’s love of science fiction)?
posted by MamaChristy at
8:15 PM
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OK, I'll wait to post on this one so I'm not first everywhere, but I just wanted you to know I caught the Prince reference, MamaC! Made me smile. (:
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JenniNapa, at 1:54 PM
Oh yeah, Prince! I knew it looked familiar. :)
I think you can take it figuratively. Novels where people actually die for love tend to make me roll my eyes, even in classics like Romeo and Juliet, because they seem so stupid and unrealistic. Most of the time people don't die for love in real life- they just don't. They're sad, they remember, they move on, they stay bogged in misery, but they don't die.
However, if you're looking at it as the "fun" part of a novel, relating to sci-fi, then you're right, these things don't happen in real life, like you said. :) That just doesn't happen to be fun for me. I'd rather read a sci-fi novel than a swooning love and death thing myself though.
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mamashine, at 1:19 PM
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