Reputation In Relationships

““If he touched her, he couldn't talk to her, if he loved her he couldn't leave, if he spoke he couldn't listen, if he fought he couldn't win.” Society has rules and regulations when it comes to love. One must abide to these restrictions or the relationship will fail. Religion, race, economic status, even where one is placed on the social caste system are determining factors in a relationship. All these are strongly taken into account when relationships begin to form because now it’s not just you, it’s you and somebody else. If one has a higher social status, how is everyone going to view you now? Reputation is everything. Society will always have the last say in relationships, they dictate whether if the couple is meant to be, or else they will tear them apart in the worst of ways. Yet, this doesn’t matter to the couple …show more content…
It’s no longer gravity holding you down, it’s them. Where they came from doesn’t matter, as long as you are with them. Yet sometimes love is a grey area, it’s scary, fearful, and nerve-racking. One doesn’t know if they are enough for their partner, whether their partner will be in love with them after all these years, they don’t know if that love is eternal. Love will plague the mind, the spirit, and the soul. Forbidden love is a recurring theme in literature that explores relationships that are pure and romantic, yet aren’t meant to be. Forbidden love makes the relationship even more exciting because the couples sneak around in hopes they aren’t caught, they are rebelling against the rules that brought them up. The House of the Spirits, The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock , and The God of Small Things, applies to the theme of forbidden love because each character in these literary pieces desire to be with the love of their life, but society or their mind holds them back from being happy. They all encounter a love they wish they can have, yet it never seems to reach their grasp