Sunday, January 29, 2012

Homework

Genre : Romance

Wikipedia states that,'As a literary genre of high culture, romance or chivalric romance is a style of heroic prose and verse narrative that was popular in the aristocratic circles of High Medieval and Early Modern Europe. They were fantastic stories about marvel-filled adventures, often of a knight errant portrayed as having heroic qualities, who goes on a quest. Popular literature also drew on themes of romance, but with ironic, satiric or burlesque intent. Romances reworked legends, fairy tales, and history to suit the readers' and hearers' tastes, but by c.1600 they were out of fashion, and Miguel de Cervantes famously satirised them in his novel Don Quixote. Still, the modern image of "medieval" is more influenced by the romance than by any other medieval genre, and the word medieval invokes knights, distressed damsels, dragons, and other romantic tropes."

The dictionary also explains that as an adjective, romance is some pose of narrative depicting heroic or marvelous deeds in mostly historical or imaginary setting. It could also be presented as a colourful world, life or condition as such told in fairy tales. It could also be believed by many as a baseless, made-up story, usually full of exaggeration and fanciful invention.

- Main Female Lead
- Main Male Lead
- Jealousy
- Some type of problem/situation/ordeal they must
overcome for their relationship
- Lead character's daydreaming