A False Romance

Have anybody came up to you and said to you that romance is dead? Not true. Millions of people still believe in romance. Even people who think that they don't, they do.

Many romantic films do not have fairy tale stories or happy endings, although love serves as a shield against the harshness of the real world. Romantic films often elaborate the main theme of love at first sight. Romanticism refers back to the romantic characters of the Middle Ages and also modern films. Romantic love on film is a universal human experience that produces intensely powerful, strong feelings. Romantic Literature has had a strong influence on modern day films through pathos, folklore, and love.

Romance is different from love, even though ideally, they should occur together. Romance is the emotional component of love. Romance adds the sparkle in your eyes. Romance adds the perfume and the colors. Romance embellishes the scenery and swells the music. Romance is the gilding of love. Romance is gold leaf. It is ornamentation. Romance sometimes becomes a means unto itself. It even becomes a cheap substitute for love at times. Some people seem to desire the trappings and embellishments of romance in place of genuine relationships. By comparison, romance is superficial to love. Romance is skin deep. Love is heart deep. Romance requires things that love does not require. Romance requires gifs and surprises and lavish attention. Romance sometimes demands things that contradict love. Romance is offended when the gold leaf wears off. Romance condemns love that is not eye-pleasing. Romance often injures and denigrates true love because love doesn’t always appeal to romance’s selfishness.

It is important to have the factors of romance and hope within romantic relationships. Both factors of romance and hope allow loved ones to grow and develop into something faithful and true. Without hope and or romance in most cases, relationships tend to decline overtime. These two factors determine the progress and potentially the outcome of relationships. Hope and romance are extremely valuable throughout many circumstances of relationships.

To begin the article, the author begins what one may call a rant. Discussing their inner thoughts of what they view as modern day romance. He exaggerates how the people in today's society can never seem to commit. There is a mindset that there is always something better out there for us and the idea of the new age ‘romance’ is not romance at all. To the new generation we believe that love is a long paragraph text message, or a snapchat from our significant other. There is so much of a dependence of

– The author tried to present two separate love stories of different generation, Ira and Ruth: Sophia and Luke. The story begins with Ira Levinson, a ninety-one years old person struggling for life, with the image of his dead wife Ruth in his mind, trying to survive from the deadly car accident. On the other hand, a young couple Sophia and Luke who had just started their married life as a happy couple just few months after they met. On their way back to home, they saw the car and Ira in injured state. They took him to the hospital where Sophia used to read the letters of his Ruth for Ira, as he was not able to read it. Luke was indulged in deadly games to pay the debts of his father. This met changed their life and soon their life changed.

Love is a feeling that comes to fruition between two people and the story behind the growth of love between two people is often associated with the culture of their society or societies. In their short story, “Family Stories,” authors Steven J. Zeitlin, Amy J. Kotkin, and Holly Cutting Baker discuss the impact and importance of oral stories passed down through generations. They state, “[Oral stories] are relevant to … history not only because they convey some factual information, but because they often capture the ethos of an era” (10). This “ethos of an era” refers to the culture surrounding a story because culture describes the actions of a collective society and as such strongly influences stories. Culture, especially, influences love stories

Many people believe that romantic love is an integral part of life, and spend decades looking for it. This type of love has become just another thing to achieve in order to “level-up.” Love, in general, is not something that we can put on a to-do list. Love might come with long black hair and blue eyes, making you swallow your bravery and your words as your heart beats a little faster. Love might be the person you grew up with, or the person that chooses to cross the road just as you start to drive across. Love could be holding a pizza and saying “your total is 24.95”. Love could be staring at a smartphone, oblivious as your nose finds the smells of the world while theirs is buried in their phone and they can’t detach themselves from the media.

Super Sad True Love Story takes a look into an exaggerated future of excessive hedonism and impulsiveness with a satirical touch that shows an ever so possible future. The issues made in the story can be easily grasped and understand through a Marxist reading of the main points of the story is centered on its economic turmoil and class division that is found throughout the book. To understand the story is to look through it as a Marxist critic as none as pertinent to understanding the information. And its themes about terrorism in the modern world and the economy along with its rampant consumerism, class division and cultural difference and Asceticism and Hedonism in the story than through the eyes of a Marxist critic.

A romantic Comedy is described to be a humorous story about two people who are in-love or falling in-love with a kick of humor to spice up the romance. Romantic comedies can come about in many different ways, when two people meet or when theirs a conflict between the two and when people reunite with someone that they’ve been thinking about to live a happy ever after. Every love store has some type of humor of nature in it. It’s funny how life can lead you in a path of romance when you least expected. The unexpected romantic films can be the most exciting films to watch because you never know whats going to happen during the film.

The romantic period in American literature back in the days was very unique. Romance was shown through poetry, novelties and music. There are so many ethnic romantic poetry that what written and created in the old times. Shakespeare was one of the many who had written poetry, novels and films of the old romance. Romeo and Juliet were huge with there love story, even in our 20th century now their story is huge.

Today, romance is one of the most popular genres to watch on television. Unlike most, romance is a genre where the plot revolves around the love between two main characters as they experience the highs and lows of love. “Common themes that revolve around romantic movies are kissing, love at first sight, tragic love, destructive love, and sentimental love” (Taylor). These themes appear in many historical films and the pattern still continues in modern films as well. Watching romantic movies has a giant negative influence on the viewer's analysis of what love and relationships should really be like. These films give the wrong impression of reality when it comes to dating, marriage, having children, and even how to manage a relationship in

Romantic Comedy has been around for many generations enticing the public with ideas of love and romance in a humorous way. According to Dictionary.com Romantic Comedy is defined as, “a movie or play that deals with love in a light, humorous way.” For all romantic comedies to make this happen, they follow three simple rules. Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back. As Brian Finnigan from The Five Golden Rules of Romantic Comedy says, “Different but the same, He wants She Wants, turmoil, and learning curves”. Although these technical terms are different, they mean the same thing. Today that may look a little different but this is a staple part of romantic comedy that makes it different

Medusa stood on the bank of the water and stuck her toes in. The water was slightly above room temperature, making today the perfect beach day. If she looked far enough into the water, she could make out a small sailboat on the brink of the horizon. The sky appeared dipped in pastels of yellow, blue, and pink. The melted colors networked together and created a beautiful sunset. In the midst of this vast world, Medusa felt small despite her stature as she stood at the edge of the water.

Kat spoke to Levi. “I’d like to ride over to a place called Calf Creek. Jake mentioned it’s close to the canyon we use for branding. Would you accompany me?” Jake wouldn’t approve of her exploring with Levi, but she didn’t care. His accusations still burned into her memory. After the commotion from the night before, she doubted if he’d miss her anyway. She intended to enjoy Levi’s easy-going friendship, and in the process, she’d have a look around starting with canyon near Calf Creek. Maybe they’d spot Sam and George. Let Jake think what he wanted, she couldn’t change his opinion of her anyway.