That's very true - for instance, most of Dicken's couples are so very Victorian that they don't resonate today. All his "good" women are self-sacrificing and so sweet that it makes your teeth ache. But then, since most novels in the past were written by men, it stands to reason that their vision of a "perfect" couple is far different than that written by (most) women. I think that Jane Eyre and Rochester are my favorite Victorian couple although Planty Pall and the Duchess in the Palisier Novels comes a close second. They are completely mismatched and yet, in the end, have a very good marriage because he comes to love and value her for what she is, not as he (or his society) would have had her be.
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Date: 2008-10-29 01:53 am (UTC)