Comparison of Across the Barricades and Far From the Madding Crowd

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Comparison of Across the Barricades and Far From the Madding Crowd

Source: Class discussion of love stories and the texts named above

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A conventional love story is a tale relating to love and the possible

effects that this strong emotion can have. The basic plot is when a

boy meets a girl and they fall in love. The middle of the story

usually contains a problem or several obstacles that the couple

encounters. A traditional love story concludes happily for the

original two in love. Stories like these arouse your anticipation,

expectation and emotions.

I believe that the only true conventional love stories are fairy tales

(containing the love genre). For example, Cinderella is a conventional

love story. The basic plot adheres closely to that of a conventional

love story. Cinderella and the Prince meet and fall in love. The

obstacles they face include Cinderella's Stepmother and two

stepsisters who hate Cinderella, and the fact that the Prince does not

know his lover's name after she rushes away from the ball leaving

behind only her glass slipper. The Prince eventually finds his true

love by using the shoe and the tale ends happily when they get

married.

A very well known example of a love story is Shakespeare's Romeo and

Juliet. They meet at a ball given by the Capulet family (Juliet's

family.) Romeo's family, the Montagues, are at war with the Capulets,

a major problem for Romeo and Juliet! The two lovers face great

difficulties in attempting to meet each other. When violence breaks

out and Romeo is banished. A radical solution is worked out involving

Juliet taking a drug to fake her death. When messages go astray Romeo

thinks that Juliet is really dead. In the confusion and mix up they

both commit suicide. I believe that although Romeo and Juliet contains

many features of a good love story it is not entirely a conventional

love story. Afterall, with the two lovers dying it really is not a

happy ending. But, after careful thought, the story ironically does

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