Theme of love and marriage

Love and marriage are the two most important themes that have been dealt with in almost all novels. It is hard to find any writer who did not show love or marriage in his or her novels. So, it can be easily said that these two themes are an inseparable part of any fiction. Without these two themes, the story seems boring and uninteresting. So, a great novel should have many characters who will fall in love and get married and live happily ever after. As an example of this, we can mention the name of some favorite books- Romeo and Juliet, Troilus and Cressida, Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tale etc.

Married couples cannot be happy if there is a lack of love between them. Conjugal life without love is like a dish without salt. This thing is shown in these four novels. Writers have shown how characters fall in love and then go through several problems in their love life and in the end how they come together. Marriage does not always ensure a happy life which we can see in romantic novels.

However, love and marriage not only show love and marriage between fictional characters but also show the condition of women in society and their sufferings. This theme cannot be ignored. In one way or another, they play a very important role in shaping the characters. The writers have shown both good and bad reasons for love and marriage in their novels.