The document discusses love triangles in literature. It provides an example of the love triangle between Romeo, Juliet, and Paris from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. The triangle consists of Juliet loving Romeo but being promised to Paris. While Paris truly loves Juliet, it is easy to forget about him due to the passionate affair between the main characters Romeo and Juliet. Understanding this love triangle helps students better comprehend the plot and how the relationship dynamics impact the story.

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Love Triangles in
Literature
Activity: Identify these celebrity love triangles
Love triangles are a
common plot tool in
literature; in modern day
texts, and in the Classics.
Why Love Triangles?
63% ofyoung adult heroinesarepart ofa
lovetriangle
There is considerable
research regarding love
triangles within literature.
Most importantly,theimpact these
relationshipshaveontheplot andonthe
peoplearoundthem.
By having a
deep
understanding
of the love
triangle, the
students better
understand the
story that is
unfolding.
Who can define
fatuous love?
Love Triangles -
R&J..
An example of fatuous love...
Romeo + Juliet + Paris
Why do students need to
understand this love triangle?
The love triangle Shakespeare portrays in Romeo and Juliet consists of Juliet,
Romeo, and Paris. We learn that Paris truly does deeply love Juliet and, by the
end of the play, we see him in profound mourning.
We see him visit Juliet's tomb late at night to privately cry and "strew" flowers
on her tomb, as we see in the lines,
Sweet flower, with flowers thy bridal bed I strew
(O woe! thy canopy is dust and stones)
Which with sweet water nightly I will dew;
Or, wanting that, with tears distill'd by moans ...
Nightly shall be to strew thy grave and weep. (12-17)
These lines show us that Paris is truly in grief and that he truly did love Juliet,
but not only that, we see that Paris is the one in the love triangle who was
forgotten in the fast and passionate affair between Romeo and Juliet.
It is easy to forget about Paris...
Can you identify
love triangles
from novels, plays
or films?
what did you come up with?
The Princess Bride: Westley,
Buttercup & Prince
Humperdinck
The Great Gatsby: Jay
Gatsby,, Daisy Buchanan &
Tom Buchanan
Gone With the Wind: Scarlett
O'Hara, Ashley Wilkes & Rhett
Butler
Bridget Jones' Diary: Bridget
Jones, Daniel Cleaver & Mark
Darcy
Pride and Prejudice: Elizabeth
Bennett, George Wickham &
Fitzwilliam Darcy
Still don't think love triangles are important?
The
Resistant
Reading...
Then again...
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