Everyone loves a good story, whether it be sad or happy, when told right it will capture the hearts and minds of millions. A sad love story is no exception, even when the audience is expecting the disaster to tear the couple apart, they are hoping against all odds that it doesn’t happen. Even those that claim to not like sad love stories get sucked in and shed a few tears.
A good love story is about building up hope and passion among the lovers. It shows all the obstacles that they must go through to be together. A good sad story does the same thing but captures the heart so completely that when tragedy strikes, you are devastated to see that they are not together at the end. It may be a story told a thousand times but it still ensnares the hearts of many.
Sad romantic stories have been around in books and films almost forever. If there is a story to tell, it has been told in one way or another. And, people never get tired of them because people never get tired of love. Love is not always about happy endings and that is what is so appealing about the sad story. Everyone has one and it helps people relate.
One of the oldest love stories is the star crossed lovers that first debuted as a play. A story as old as time, rival families, hatred and obstacles, yet the two young innocent ones find each other amid all that animosity and discover love. Their love is never meant to be as tragedy strikes just when they thought they could be together. A bittersweet message that love can prevail through the worst of times and be taken away.
A popular book tells the tale of an angel who while on earth falls in love with a mortal woman. Here we see what love can make a person or nonperson do. Sacrificing all he knows and who he is to shed his angelic wings and live a mortal life to be with the one he loves. And, despite all those sacrifices disaster still takes the love away. But the hope in the story prevails, giving the message that it is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
A modern day love story with the twist of rich girl falls for poor boy is the setting of another famous love story that ends in tragedy. Rose and Jack, although from different words, discover a world together. And, for a brief time is the happiest couple on earth, planning a life ahead. But as the story goes on, disaster strikes all around them, and despite the hope of getting through it together, millions of hearts are broken as theirs are on screen.
A good sad love story provides inspiration for everyone that love is out there and it can be found. Even when faced with a tragedy, the heart goes on and anything is possible. This is why romantics especially enjoy a good story, no matter how heartbreaking it is, hope is never dead.
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