Rush into the Secret House

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document in English

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published 19/10/2007

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Romeo loved Juliet, Juliet loved Romeo, and in the end, they both died to prove it. Neither the Capulets nor the Montagues could understand such love, so neither could allow such love. Romeo and Juliet died to prove it. Yet centuries later, William Shakespeare’s darker tragedy is still revered as one of the greatest love stories of all time. The politics of Elizabethan England that pitted family against family are not so prominent in the modern Western world, but the love created between Romeo and Juliet, a love that existed outside the boundaries of societal acceptance, still exists. Many homosexual youths stand on the edge of a lifelong battle for the right to love. But the only love they can ever hope for is one born of loneliness, of desperation, of suffering: the love of Romeo and Juliet; the love destined for end. The love that shatters the very sanctity that love has been expected to preserve. Léa Pool’s Lost and Delirious paints an accurate yet painful picture of a lesbian love torn apart by the predisposed expectations of a private high school.

Romantic love developed from the practice of courtly love, a direct objection to the prevalent belief in agape, or Christian love.
Courtly love died with aristocracy and the Christian state.
As Paulie and Tori realize in Lost and Delirious, romantic love is half loving and half retaining that love, half longing and half suffering.
At the beginning of Lost and Delirious, the relationship between Tori and Paulie is seemingly perfect.
Adolescence, as a key period of development, relies heavily on the family unit for support.
Where Tori can be seen as a disgrace to romantic love, Paulie can be seen as the epitome.
Romantic love is passion in its darkest form, 'an emotion [that] completely masters the mind' (Webster).
Whether Tori means to or not, she feeds Paulie's passion.
There must be more, a bigger pain, a better reason, something that makes Paulie more than another Romeo, another romantic martyr.