The Unrealistic Portrayal of True Love
Why is true love presented so unrealistically in some literature and visual media?

True love in the Western world - to borrow Denis de Rougemont's useful term - has come to mean, in the popular imagination, many different things. It is something that is pure and innocent, utter faithful and never questionable, perfect and unchanging - an elementary part of our human lives that posses such tangible strength, it can ‘conquer all'. Yet, if true love is really what literature and visual media portray it to be, this instant and permanent, indescribable emotional connection between two people, why does it so often end in tragedy and why do we see so many divorces? If true love is all what Perrault's narrative Sleeping Beauty, and William Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 quintessentially portray it to be, why haven't I ‘fallen into love at first sight', ‘married after one dance', and thus ‘lived happily ever after'? The fact is, that I, like many......

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Title: English Oral
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Approximate Pages: 6 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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