An 18thcentury love story woven with streaks of eternal love, faithfulness, infidelity, power of wealth and avariciousness. Manon Lescaunt named after the book’s central character Manon Lescaunt is a woman who’s sent off to a convent to become a nun against her wishes. How she is spotted by a youngster of her age who instantly falls in love with her charm and beauty and thus starts the saga of love. Youngsters in their teens as they are, fall prey to the illusion of living with each other, completely desolate from the rest of the world and their kin. They fail to see through the facts of life and norms of society where a man has to earn his bread and abstain himself from depending solely upon the luxuries and wealth that he has acquired from his well-wishers.
Manon’s consistent display of her love for luxury and his beloved leave the reader considering a scenario of split identity where on the one end she has extreme love for Grieux and at the same time she does not think twice about dumping him for somebody who’s wealthier and can shower her with all possible luxuries every time Grieux is touched upon by forms of poverty. At three events Mamon walks out of his life leaving him in utmost despair and murkiness so very casually and the very next moment one finds him bringing her back in his life by few exchanges of affection and love.
Trechery on Mamon’s part at all those three events thereafter followed by treachery on Mamon’s and Grieux’s part once they get together in taking revenge from the person who’s mistake is to develop feelings for this beautiful creature and offer her his wealth showering in place of her company, are the lows that this love saga touches throughout the entire narration.
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I regret I am yet to read any romantic novel as such- or any novel for that matter.Still,I do have a take on stories that involve people leaving for some pursuit which is dear to their personal self.I believe, what underlines a relationship is not the fact that someone leaves ( under illusion of a better life without the loved ones ),rather,its the fact that he/she 'comes back', that defines the strength of bond which they share.Somehow,I get a hint of that phenomenon happening in this story- I could,obviously be wrong.
Other thing that stayed with me was the ushering in of 'me' when sometime back we started talking of 'we'.Its the thing that is behind those going-away-of-loved-ones and somehow it appears to be more than a learning exercise.
Also,there is something about being aware of practicalities when we undertake a new project - project as in relationship or any other venture that we start on our own ( you talked about failing to see the norms of society..).It might appear a bit immature but scientifically speaking,all these theories that talk of "what we need to keep in mind when we think about this project" have evolved only after some action was performed and it was never the other way round.So,in essence, explanation follows action.That means everything that we do could actually turn out to be "good" because history is not static(but dynamic).So,thinking about the feasibilities and making calculations is human but too-precautious.I hope I am making a point...
yes that certainly is well taken as a point.
thankx for sparing so much of ur time and energy
(meanwhile...i accidentally bumped into a novel..that too a love story...that too a classic love story...but even after i realized abt the mishap....i decided to continue reading it till the end)
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