A2 Love Through the Ages - wider reading - romantic
Love at First Sight
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Falling in Love
Love as process of realisationsed diamaccusantium doloremque laudantium, totam r em aperiam eaquep. Store veritatis et quasi architecto beatae vitae dicta sunt, explicabo.
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Lizzie Bennet is a classic heroine, intelligent, witty and opinionated but her first impression of Mr Darcy is not favourable. It takes a series of unforeseen events to overcome his pride and her prejudice before their love can be realised. |
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Style/structure: realist, novel, comedy of manners, free indirect speech |
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Themes: social class, marriage, morality |
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Emma Woodhouse rejects the idea of marriage, being content to matchmake others but when it seems that old friend Mr Knightley may be interested in someone else, Emma realises the depth of her feelings for him. |
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Style/structure: realist, novel, comedy of manners, free indirect speech |
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Themes: social class, marriage, the position of women, |
Desire
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Over the course of 24 hours the middle-aged narrator reflects upon his decision to leave his wife and children after embarking on an affair with a much younger woman. |
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Style/structure: novella
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Themes: family, marriage, infidelity,
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True Love...
Links to Plato
...between boys and girls
diamaccusantium doloremque laudantium, totam r em aperiam eaquep. Store veritatis et quasi architecto beatae vitae dicta sun
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...between men and women
diamaccusantium doloremque laudantium, totam r em aperiam eaquep. Store veritatis et quasi architecto beatae vitae dicta sun
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Henry has a rare chronological disorder which means that he slips in and out of time. He first meets Clare when he is 28 and she is 20 but she has known him since she was 6. Such confusion characterises their relationship and the gaps, overlaps and distances between them become a universal metaphor for marriage; no matter how intimate their relationship, lovers' experience is always separate. |
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Style/structure: novel, science fiction, love story, dual narrative, non-linear |
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Themes: love, loss, time, fate/free will, |
...between women and women
diamaccusantium doloremque laudantium, totam r em aperiam eaquep. Store veritatis et quasi architecto beatae vitae dicta sun
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Oranges are Not the Only Fruit
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...between men and men
diamaccusantium doloremque laudantium, totam r em aperiam eaquep. Store veritatis et quasi architecto beatae vitae dicta sun
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