True Love = The Norm?:Perspective on Room with a View

Love is a topic that has touched each generation and at time might be undesirable, and in others it could go against our morality. The division of social classes has always been present in many social customs, like in love, family, and responsibilities.  In the movie a room with a view, the concept of love is presented in a realistic environment, in a century very different from ours, but present the same issues, that demonstrate that even throughout time, love faces the same obstacles in a relationship. The movie focuses on the different views, and expectations of love in different social circles, which permit for a whole picture of what is love in that time to be discussed. 

If the movie was translated to the modern time, it would be a young lady and her aunt go on a vacation to a remote location, where the lady plays piano so passionately, that she is complimented that if people placed that much passion in how they interacted, it would be a better society. There she meets Mr. Adventure, and his father. There the lady finds interest in how the father thinks, and is different from the rest of the society. She ends up falling for Mr. Adventure and Mr. Adventure for her as well, but since they are not from the same social class their relationship is doomed by the social customs, because the family will not look for love, but how someone is perceived before love. The summer fling ends there, and she goes back to her home to a man who is in the same social circle as she is, and gets engaged, but is the most stupid relationship ever, because the man just wants her as a trophy wife. There is no real form of love in their interaction, but as all romantic comedies go, the lover always finds his girl, but it is kind of desperate, because he forced his father to move to the same neighborhood for him to have an excuse to meet and be with her more. The movie takes a sharp turn, because the lady realizes that she is better following love, than marrying without it. So she leaves and ends up bumping with Mr. Adventure and living happily ever after.

Although very fictional, in how I expressed the story, the plot just points out that love is love, and the social and economic differences should not be a limit if one is with someone that truly makes them happy and pushes them to happiness and joy. If the heart chooses whom to love, then follow your heart, don’t let some simple excuse keep you from following your desire to be with someone. When that someone pushes away all those reasons to not be together because they are more valuable to they are more valuable to your happiness, than fulfilling your desires and needs, then don’t leave them and accept them as they are and seek out joy. Don’t let the desire to meet the standards of your family, or social expectations limit you, to find that special someone in your life, it is your life, live it how you please, not to please others.