A Story to Read on the Day You've Fell in Love Spoiler Ending
It's Feb, and if you find yourself surrounded past pink and red and drowning in chalky conversation hearts that'south because Valentine's Day is fast budgeted. (Pssst, it's Feb 14thursday for any of you are currently freaking out considering you forgot.) Despite the fluffy nature of the holiday and the focus on "twue wove" information technology's non the twenty-four hour period for everyone.
Maybe you lot adopt to spend Valentine'due south Mean solar day listening to Morrissey in the dark, maybe you're just similar President Snow and the mere sight of people property hands disgusts y'all, maybe you but have a problem with rampant consumerism. Whatever the instance may be, we have created an anti-Valentine's Day list just for y'all. Become out your hankies (or your noisemakers, considering you may be a sadist), because these literary couples do not find their happily e'er after.
Alarm: beware of spoilers all ye who enter here (duh).
ANNA KARENINA AND COUNT VRONSKY
Anna Kareninaby Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina is pretty tired of being married to her womanizing husband Karenin, so much so that she becomes embroiled in an thing with the young and dashing Count Vronsky. Afraid to exit her married man because, "What volition guild retrieve!?!" Anna and Vronsky eventually end upwardly together, just Anna finds herself a social pariah because of it, while Vronsky is nevertheless well respected in gild. Torn apart by anger, jealousy and the double-standards of societal norms, Anna commits suicide by train—or if you happen to exist readingAndroid Karenina, fixes a time paradox.
WILL AND LYRA
His Night Materials by Phillip Pullman
Will and Lyra'due south lives intersect thanks to the help of a magical-but-subtle knife that can sever the fabric between worlds. Unfortunately, it also weakens these worlds, and Will and Lyra must painfully part ways if they are to save their respective dimensions. Their departing is so painful, in fact, that my friend created a brand new trope to express their hurting: WillLyra-ed. Remember when Rose Tyler and The Tenth Doctor were separated by that wall in parallel universes? They were WillLyra-ed. Will and Lyra were the original X and Rose, and in that location was no convenient human being copy to make it all better. Also, Rose and Ten don't have a bench in Oxford dedicated to their honey, do they?
THE Piffling MERMAID AND THE PRINCE
The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen
The original tale of The Niggling Mermaid was very different from the Disney-fied version. In Hans Christian Andersen'southward story, the Little Mermaid grows legs that are so painful it'due south like walking on knives and is warned past the Sea Witch that if her Prince should ally another she will die of a cleaved eye. Unfortunately, he ends upward marrying a princess pretty shortly, at which point the Little Mermaid's sisters get in with a knife and a hell of a loophole from the Sea Witch: if she slays her Prince and his bride, she tin can become a mermaid again. Unable to impale her love, she throws herself into the ocean and dies, turning into sea foam. Even then she can't observe peace though considering she becomes a daughter of the air and must do good deeds in guild to earn a soul. Ugh!
JAY GATSBY AND DAISY BUCHANAN
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
All Gatsby (Gatsby? What Gatsby?) wanted to practise was make Daisy Buchanan dearest him. He didn't stare at that greenish light for the entire book for no reason! (Except possibly considering that's how symbolism works?) Merely all he wound upwardly doing was getting killed while trying to protect his lover who happened to commit a little bit of vehicular manslaughter. Spoilers? This book came out 85 years ago (not to mention the two movie versions), then surely the statute of limitations on spoilers has passed by now.
HAMLET AND OPHELIA
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Come on, you knew I had to throw in some Shakespeare—and nonthe super-obvious choice. Romeo and Juliet wouldn't know love if it smacked them right in the face up. I mean, did Romeo tell Juliet to transport herself to a nunnery at which point she went crazy, sang a bunch and drowned herself? Methinks not. These two also have tragedy up the wazoo. In improver to Village stabbing Ophelia's father through a drapery, he ends up inadvertently poisoning Ophelia's brother Laertes who ultimately kills Hamlet to avenge Ophelia's suicide. Oh Shakespeare.
TRISTAN AND ISEULT
Tristan and Iseult by Thomas of Britain and Beroul
If you lot must have some star-crossed lovers, take a gander at Tristan and Iseult, who were thought to take inspired the Arthurian legend of Lancelot, Guinevere and the matter that killed Rex Arthur and brought about the downfall of Camelot. The stories differ from verse form to poem but the basic gist is this: Tristan is supposed to give Iseult to his uncle to marry only through various trickery or shenanigans (depending on the version) they drink a love potion and fall madly in beloved. It all gets very complicated from hither, with both Tristan and Iseult marrying other people and eventually dying of broken hearts considering Tristan wrongly thinks that Iseult has died. Apologies to Romeo and Juliet for accusing them of being overly dramatic...that sounds like it sucks.
HEATHCLIFF AND CATHERINE
Wuthering Heights past Emily Bronte
Bella Swan (yes, that Bella Swan) loves Wuthering Heights so much because for some reason she thinks it makes her own love triangle more romantic. Pitiful Stephenie Meyer, Bella will never be Catherine and Edward will never be Heathcliff and not only because you apparently didn't understand the basic plot of Bronte'southward novel. Catherine and Heathcliff loved each other from a young age, but for some reason she ended up marrying the terrible, horrible, no expert Edgar Linton. Catherine eventually dies, and because their scenes together on the moor weren't dramatic enough, Heathcliff forces his son Linton to marry Catherine's daughter Cathy every bit a form of twisted wish-fulfillment.
THE NARRATOR AND ANNABEL LEE
Annabel Lee by Edgar Allen Poe
The last consummate poem written past Edgar Allen Poe (and published posthumously) was about what else but a dead adult female and her pining, haunted lover. The two fell in love when they were immature and loved so strongly that fifty-fifty the angels were jealous of them. Unfortunately, the gloriously named Annabel Lee died, possibly at the easily of these angels, but the narrator connected to love her even into death, sleeping adjacent to her tomb beside the sea every dark. Sounds about right.
HAZEL AND AUGUSTUS
The Mistake in Our Stars by John Light-green
Our near modernistic and tragic lovers tin can be establish in John Green's novel The Fault in Our Stars (almost to be a flick, as well, in case yous've never been to the internet) virtually ii teens with cancer who run into in a support group: Hazel and Augustus. Just remember, information technology's a love story, not a cancer story. Over the course of the novel the duo grow closer and closer to one another. At first Hazel is opposed to this because she doesn't desire Augustus – who has already lost a girlfriend to cancer – to lose another girlfriend when she ultimately dies. Suffice it to say, later falling in love ("the fashion you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once") the duo end tragically and painfully. If you lot don't experience anything after reading this book then it's quite possible you don't have a soul.
DORIAN Grayness AND DORIAN GRAY
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Sure, in Oscar Wilde's but novel Dorian Gray falls in dearest with an actress (whom he throws aside and drives to suicide-by-acid) just nosotros all know the person Dorian Grayness truly loves more than anyone else is himself. And then much so that he is willing to trap his soul within a painting so he can stay young and beautiful forever...albeit inadvertently. Unfortunately, he lives in a gothic novel and a happy ending is not in the cards for him or his dark and twisted soul (which is just slightly worse of a fate than beingness in that League of Extraordinary Gentleman movie).
Source: https://www.quirkbooks.com/post/spoiler-alert-ten-literary-couples-ended-unhappily
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