Love And Tragic Love

Love is deep, intense, true and passionate, but all too often ends tragically seemingly to always leaving one person behind who carries the burden of the love. The stories I am comparing all have tragic love as a common theme. When exploring the relationship of young lovers Veronica and JD in Heathers, the passionate love of Ludmila and Theodor in Worthy, or follow the love story of John Keats and Fanny Brawne we get a glimpse of how each of these love stories ends in tragedy and how our survivors of those relationships deal with the aftermath.

In the book/musical Heather’s, Veronica is attracted to the mysterious new boy at school J.D. Their attraction is evident to all and you can feel the raw chemistry between the two. During their first

However, her greatest love was Theodore, and this is also her ultimate loss of love. Ludmila meets Theodore on her way to America. He is much older than her, but their attraction to each other and their love of exploring life brings them together. Ludmila describes Theodore to us as “light as a breeze, and he loves women like she is a goddess.” page 5 making the passionate Ludmila love him regardless of the age difference. Throughout the story that Ludmila give us a detailed description of their deep love affair that is a combination of sexual attraction, adventure, and playing theater games (con-games). While traveling through Mexico, Ludmila is offered some pesos from a kind woman who obviously thinks Ludmila is in need since her dress is old-fashioned and their broken down truck is in need of new paint. Ludmila tries to tell them she has pesos but they insist, “I can recognize that the woman would like to be the kindest hero and, is telling the husband to give again.” An important moment in their relationship because it is where Ludmila discovers she enjoys the con-game that they call the game of theater. Ludmile prefers not to lie, but she knows that Theodore like the puzzle of the con and he has said, “truth blinds, and lies are beautiful twilight” page 118. This is something like the The Fall, one of the four books that Theodore lectures on

Initially, John just befriends Fanny, but their love grew when they began spending more and more time together reading poetry in the garden. Many of Keat’s friends were not found of this relationship with Fanny and expressed their concern with, “absence from the poor idle thing of a woman-kind, to whom he has not unaccountable attached himself, will not be an ill thing.” But Keat’s was taken with Fanny and Keat’s knew that due to his lack of financial resources he could not marry. Therefore, he made the difficult choice to move to the Isle of Wight so he could concentrate on his writing and poetry in hopes of earning enough money to ask for Fanny’s hand in marriage. While away Keat’s suffered lonesomeness and wrote to Fanny frequently expressing his love of her. On July 1, 1819, Keat’s writes to Fanny, “This morning is the only proper time for me to write to a beautiful Girl whom I love so much; for at night, when the lonely day has closed.” Keat’s returns to Fanny in October of 1819 and they become engaged but decide to keep it secret because he still had not earned enough money to go through with the marriage. By this time Keat’s was also showing signs of being ill and continued to get worse, in fact, he asked for Fanny to break off the engagement but she refused affirming her love for him. Keat’s for a second time moves away from