I think I was born in the wrong era. It would be so amazing to live in the 1940’s (the Great Depression is a minor set back prior to that…) or much earlier, 360 BC, the times that Alexander the Great lived in. Or the years of the setting for the theatre/movie Tristan and Isolde. Everything was much truer in those earlier times, yes, women were treated terribly, but there was still some justice. Jobs meant hardly nothing to them, there weren’t computer programmers, or cell phone companies, there were blacksmiths and herbalists. Everything was much simpler, but raw and unshapen. Wars were erupting all over, to claim what little land was known of, but they were fought with swords and tomahawks and bow and arrows, not guns and missiles. Everything took skill, to be a leader you had to act like one, you had to earn your place, not people with lots of money bribing their way to the top. Those who won the wars either had lots of people or skill. People lived for love, without that, there was just monotonous fights and living on the land. There were no supermarkets, there were outdoor markets where you bought from your neighbors, or imported from somewhere close by. In the 1940s there was glamour and hope for better times. The music and movies are fantastic from then, all revolving around this one concept; love. Nowadays there are ‘chick flicks’ or ‘romantic comedies’ that don’t have the same truth that reverberated in other times. The best romance movies, in my opinion are always set in other times, times that had more romance, that people came across, not desperately searching for on the Internet, or blind dates. Even the books I am mildly obsessed with, Twilight, New Moon, and recently added, Eclipse, they are based in our time, but all of the fantastic characters come from past times, that have lived through the world as it has changed. There was a certain something that made the glamour these days stand to shame when compared to those times, or the love stories we hear. It is a pity that technology and freedom have replaced the trueness of love and a way of life.
Lol I agree, but what about the Regency? Georgian era? Medieval era? French Revolution? Colonial America? Civil War? Gold Rush? Turn-of-the-century America? I think I left out a few…
Wow, Kaitie. When you put it like that, it sounds like our modern-day societies are quite overdone. I wish I could find a romance such as one between Edward and Bella. All in good time, I suppose.
You have forgotten about the issue of disease that was a huge killer, no antibodics, no hand washing, many/most women died from childbirth, females had no rights/no say in anything, they were property. People lived in caves; were eaten by wild animals and maybe other people. Died of the cold/and the heat. Men took what females they wanted; when they wanted them. Strong men took what they wanted from those less fornatated them they were. No farmers, food was scarvaged or killed. What a wonderful time—you are dreaming by girl.