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This list is curated from 4 mentions and sorted by most mentioned, then by date of most recent mention. The more a book is mentioned, the more likely it's recommended and a favorite!
I think that you could certainly make an egalitarian relationship exciting in fiction but the way that you do that would be to put other kinds of barriers in the way. I mean I guess you look at something like Romeo and Juliet was as an obvious example where Romeo and Juliet are, I guess, more or less socially equal although you know, as medieval man and woman not really... but still there's not quite the class element that there is in say Pride and Prejudice or in Twilight.View all 2 sources
To Shakespeare, by contrast, all combatants look more or less alike. It's not at all clear why they should be fighting, since they have nothing to fight about. Consider the opening line from Romeo and Juliet: "Two households, both alike in dignity." The two houses are alike, yet they hate each other. They grow even more similar as the feud escalates. Eventually, they lose sight of why they started fighting in the first place.View source
I was a big fan of fairy tales growing up and you'll see a lot of references to Romeo and Juliet and Scarlet Letter and things like that referenced in my songs and that's from my reading, that's from the stories I was brought up with.View source
