The Love Story

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At the beginning, the couple is neither rich nor poor.
There is superficial glamour surrounding the main characters.
Fate is used to justify unlikely coincidences.
Some outside force brings the couple together.
The story has a happy ending (Jensen 75-96)

There’s always some convention and some innovation in any given love story; for example, the movieSleepless in Seattle features both. The conventions in Sleepless include superficial glamour. Both Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan are very attractive. Theirs is a love at first sight. The innocent action wrongly perceived comes about when Meg Ryan sees Tom Hanks hugging his sister. They are neither nor poor, and fate has Tom Hanks at the airport when Meg Ryan arrives. Of course, the couple meets at the top of the Sears Tower, and, presumably, lives happily together.

The innovation is Sleepless is the way the couple gets together. They have never met each other. They are brought together by Tom Hanks’ young son, who ...

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emotional states).

Stylistically, Romanticism prefers lush exuberance. Romantic prose is often rich with description.

The ideal, imaginary, and visionary are more important and real than the mundane facts of every day life (Baldwin 1145-1146).

The conventions in The Raven include an obstacle to love – Lenore is dead. In true romantic style, she isn’t just dead she’s lost (an appeal to emotion). Another convention is superficial glamour. Lenore is described as "a rare and radiant maiden." The richness of the room is shown in great detail: the soft curtains, the bust of Pallas, and the velvet chair (the Romantic ideal of lush exuberance).

The Raven is also very ...

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