5 of my most famous love couples in literature

Valentine's Day! is here again. Hearts, roses, gifts, champagne, romantic dinners and, of course, a lot love. Among those gifts may well be a good book, if possible with that love as the protagonist. So for the more romantic spirits overflowing today, I do mi selection of 5 of the couples in love most famous in literature. These are:

Ulysses and Penelope

I start with the oldest classics like Greek Homer. It would be because I had to translate parts of the Iliad and the Odisea in my high school and college battles with the aorist. Or because in the most remote childhood that spatial recreation of Ulysses-31 left an imprint on the myth. The fact is that Ulysses I always liked him. Was more cunning and Machiavellian that the bombastic and dramatic Achilles or Héctor de la Iliad.

I liked his hazardous journey just to get back to Ithaca more than the wars and the Trojan horses. And I was moved to see his wife Penelope do and undo what she wove on that loom while trying to get rid of so many flies taking advantage of the long absence of poor Ulises. So I enjoy with the same delight both their return and their forcefulness in dispatching them all without hesitation.

Romeo AND Juliet

The greatest and most tragic love storysome say. LOVE with capital letterssay others. The English bard who envisioned her did it in a big way, as with all the universal emotions he wrote to be expressed on stage. The absolute passion of the youngest and first love against the opposition of eternally irreconcilable families.

The unequal struggle of pure feelings against the whole world which means his little universe of Capulets and Montagues. And the ultimate sacrifice for not stopping to feel it and because his loss means the end of everything. Because being little more than a teenager (and whoever felt it knows it) that LOVE has no limits or borders, it is unique and it seems that it will last forever. Versioned a thousand times, maybe it's the most eternal love story.

Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff

oh victorian loves. The Saxon people are famous for phlegmatic, with a powerful shield forged over a long time so that their blood boils just enough. Nothing could be further from the truth, although the truth is that they always deceive us. But when they get carried away by passions, THEY LET THEMSELVES. Shakespeare and many others had already done it. But in the nineteenth century the wave of Romanticism plunged Europe into a fever of unrivaled love and passion. And the Saxons also drowned in it.

Creatures like the Brontë sistersendowed with rare talent, they created beings like Catherine Earnshaw and Mr. Heathcliff (Wuthering Heights, Emily), or Jane Eyre and Edward Rochester (Jane Eyre, Charlotte). cathy earnshawso fickle and proud, you can never avoid the most passionate love By such a great force of the wildest nature as heathcliff. And they honor the saying of not being able to live neither with you nor without you. Until the end.

Jane Eyre and Edward Rochester

It would take too many words to talk about this couple. They better do it.

Jane-Eyre:

Do you think I can stay here if I mean nothing to you? Do you think I'm some kind of automaton, a machine without feelings that can live without a measly piece of meat or a drop of water? Do you think that because I am poor, silent, discreet and petite, I am also a being without heart and soul? Well, you are wrong: my soul is as real as yours, and so is my heart! And if God had endowed me with a little more beauty and a lot more money, it would have made it as difficult for him to leave me as it is for me now to have to leave him. I am not talking about customs, or formalities, not even mortal flesh: it is my spirit that turns to his, as if they had already crossed the threshold of death and found themselves as equals prostrate before God. Because that's the way we are, the same! ».

Edward Rochester:

«After a youth sunk in the worst of miseries or in the most absolute loneliness, I finally found someone to truly love. I have found you… You are my soul, my goodness, my guardian angel; I am united to you by a bond that cannot be broken. I think you are good, virtuous and lovable. The intense passion that burns in my heart makes you the center of my life and wraps my existence around yours, its flames consume us in a bonfire until we merge into one being ».

Are more words needed? I think not. This is a love story with many other nuances that anyone can appropriate for the cause that he likes, suits or interests him the most. But what is above all is love.

Marianne Dashwood and Colonel Brandon

They were created by another lady of Victorian romanticism: Jane Austen for your Sense and Sensibility. He contrasted restraint and reasoning with passion and irrationality in the sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. And he added the unfavorable environment of lost social position and the wrong suitors who, in the end (remember, it is another love story) become the right ones.

And i prefer highlight the passionate Marianne than to the rational Elinor. Perhaps because I can identify more with Elinor, but I know that in reality I can allow myself to be carried away by the most blinding passions. Marianne is dazzled and deceived by the interested and vain mr willoughby. But there, in the shade, quiet, patient, stoic but persistent, he is, straight colonel brandon. His discretion and kindness end up mitigating the infamy suffered by Marianne and winning her heart.

La magnificent film version who signed Ang Lee in 1995 my fondness for Brandon further increased. Surely because of the interpretation of that very elegant and fabulous actor who was Alan Rickman. And with him I finish.

And what are your partners?


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