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Dear all,
This thought has been in my head for two days now, but we had analyzed a lot so I had refrained from posting this. But now seems like a good time plus I don't think I can keep it to myself anymore.
Getting to the point now. Many of us here may have read "The Scarlet Pimpernel", it is not what would generally be classified as a romantic novel, but there is a lot of romance in the novel. The context is that some incidents have broken their trust and Marguerite and Percy both no longer trust each other, the love is very much there, but there is an emotional wall much like ShraMan. Percy for one can not stop loving her.
The parallel I wish to draw is one scene in particular when Marguerite tries to break through this wall.
An excerpt from the (what I could get on the internet)
"Is it possible that love can die?" Marguerite asks in a moment of desperation.
"Me thought that the passion which you once felt for me would outlast the span of human life. Is there nothing left of that love, Percy . . . which might help you . . . to bridge over that sad estrangement?"
To which he responds, "Do you wish to see me once more a love-sick suppliant at your feet, so that you might again have the pleasure of kicking me aside, like a troublesome lap-dog?"
She walks away.
And this is the good part.
"Had she but turned back then, and looked out once more on to the rose-lit garden, she would have seen that which would have made her own sufferings seem but light and easy to bear"a strong man, overwhelmed with his own passion and his own despair. Pride had given way at last, obstinacy was gone: the will was powerless. He was but a man madly, blindly, passionately in love, and as soon as her light footsteps had died away within the house, he knelt down upon the terrace steps, and in the very madness of his love he kissed one by one the places where her small foot had trodden, and the stone balustrade there, where her tiny hand had rested last."
This is exactly what I felt when I saw Shravan breakdown in the scene with choti Sumo. I feel Shravan & Percy are parallels and so are Sumo & Marguerite, and I think this is where ShraMan stand now, at the exact same spot where Percy & Marguerite stood.
Thoughts ?
Please add any more scenes from any books/ movies which give you the same feeling.
P.S : Quoting Anu from the other thread
Like the parallel between Percy and Shravan - his trust is betrayed, but try as he might, he cannot stop loving her. And like Percy, he too has created a persona to stay away. And like Marguerite, Suman too keeps testing him, doesn't she? She gets into these verbal duels just to break the wall he has created around him.
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