This was an extremely sad story but unfortunately I don’t think it was uncommon for a young girl of this time to experience these things. I can not imagine leaving my family like that. My dream is to move south and teach down around Virginia. I know it would be very hard to leave my family and friends up here though. I could never just up and move to another country.
This story made me think of all the young girls in “love”. The game of love has been the same way forever. If you look at history ancient kings and queens committed adultery and were married way to young. They faced the same love triangles that today’s young people do. He loves her, she loves his best friend and his best friend loves her best friend. I have to wonder why no one has proposed a way to stop these things from happening.
My family and I believe falling in and out of young “love” is necessary to learn lessons and experience life. You have to have your heart broken a few times before you learn what you want. You have to realize who you are before you can know what kind of person you want to spend the rest of your life with. Charlotte didn’t find out who she really was until it was to late :(
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I agree with you. It takes life experience and love experience to know when the right thing comes along. I think the time period had a lot to do with Charlotte's feelings towards Montraville. Young women were not permitted to have the types of experiences that we take for granted these days. However, I think that the end of your post is the most important! "You have to realize who you are.." Charlotte never attempted to do this. She continuously defined herself by either her family or Montraville. I wish I could say that if given more time she would have "found herself", but in all honesty I think she would have stayed naieve forever and always defined herself by her family or man that she was with.
ReplyDeleteRachel I agree with your ideas about love in regards to Charlotte and being able to find yourself. I also agree with you when you say it was a very sad story but more than likely it was could have been a common problem amoung young girls at the time. Maybe not to the extreme of being taken away to America, getting pregnant and then dying. But maybe to the effect of being married too young to someone who says they love you or being taken from your family and being married to someone you love. No matter what it ends in misery.
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