The best/worst pairs and the most anticipated love triangles in fiction

[toni]

Please list the couples in fiction that made the perfect match and the most anticipated lovetriangles..

Here's mine..

Perfect couple:
Aragorn and Arwen from The Lord of the Rings
Angel Clare and Tess Durbeyfield.(So much Love!)

Most anticipated lovetriangle:
Linton-Catherine-Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights..

Worst couple:

I can't think of any at the moment.



If this was posted before....
I am not gonna start any threads for the rest of my life....
Thank you.

[bluevictim]

For perfect couple, I pick David Copperfield and Agnes Wickfield, from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. I don't know why, but I really liked that story even though the cynical side of me tells me that it's probably pretty corny.

My favorite couple, though, might be Peter Abelard and Heloise (but I guess they don't count because it's not fiction). I haven't read the letters, but I really enjoyed Pope's Heloisa to Abelard. For literature, nothing is better than forbidden love!

I'm not sure what is meant by "anticipated" love triangle, but maybe you meant "celebrated" love triangle?

For the most celebrated love triangle, I would pick Paris, Helen, and Menelaus (I guess that may not be fiction) from Homer's Iliad (and Greek folklore).

For weirdest love triangle, I would pick Lucy, Pierre, and Isabel from Herman Melville's Pierre. If you've read it, you know what I mean.

[toni]

I haven't read that book. Sounds interesting, though.

[Logos]

perfect... Sally Athelny and Philip Carey from Maugham's Of Human Bondage :)

[Virgil]

Traingle: Gatsby, Daisy and Tom Buchanon from Fiztgerald's The Great gatsby.

[Vedrana]

For best love triangle, Olivia, Viola and Orsino from "Twelfth Night" are the most memorable for me.

Possibly one of the worst couples would have to be Charlotte and Mr Collins in "Pride and Prejudice", but having said that, I hated how Mr B and Pamela in "Pamela" ended up getting married. Pamela's virtue may be rewarded, but isn't she rewarding Mr B's vice?

[toni]

For best love triangle, Olivia, Viola and Orsino from "Twelfth Night" are the most memorable for me.


Oh yeah! Orsino, Viola and Olivia! How could I ever forget?:crash:

[grace86]

Can't forget the sweet couple Kitty and Levin from Anna Karenina

Eeww...Anna and Vronsky and Karenin made my head hurt

[Virgil]

Best pair: Antony and Cleopatra, for my money.

[Riesa]

no one has mentioned Romeo and Juliet...are they passé?

Even though they don't really count as fiction, Henry and June and Anais Nin have my vote.

[higley]

My favorite couple would be Raskolnikov and Sofya from Crime and Punishment, even though they weren't exactly, I don't know how to say, courting or anything during the book, but they loved each other. Sofya's devotion in following Raskolnikov to Siberia was really touching.

For lovetriangle, I agree with Virgil on Gatsby, Daisy and Tom.

[thevintagepiper]

I say Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy from Pride and Prejudice are one of the best couples :)

[EAP]

Beren Camlost and Luthien Tinuviel
Turin, Niniel and Finduilas
Midori Kobayashi, Naoko and Toru Watanabe
Christine Daae, Erik, and Raoul
John Grady Cole, Magdalena and Eduardo
Eldarion, Erendis and the sea
Turin, Finduilas and Gwindor
Idril Celebrindal, Tuor and Eol
Phedre No Delaunay and Joscelin Verreuil

[mir]

well, Scarlet O'Hara and Rhett Butler belong in there somewhere . . . :p worst or best though?? :D i think i give my vote for worst. lovely writing, but they are neither suited for love.

[SummerSolstice]

Jane Eyre and Edward Rochester!

*sigh*... I adore that book. They're so wonderfully in love, and Jane is so noble, and Mr. Rochester so confused and hurt, and it's so beautiful... even though if I ever stop and think about the age difference it gives me the wierds. :S

[Bysshe]

Yes, the Linton-Catherine-Heathcliff love triangle is the best, in my opinion.

[grace86]

Grrr...haven't got to the Sofya point in Crime and Punishment....I have been trying to read that darn book since August.

[Aurora Ariel]

As it's yet to be mentioned in any of the previous posts, I just wanted to include the tragic love triangle of Newland Archer/May Welland/and Ellen Olenska from Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence I greatly enjoyed the 1921 Pulitzer Prize winning book when I first read it, but it's only in the last two months that I've finally got around to watching Scorsese's intensely passionate, sombre, and well-cast film, which is certainly one of the more impressive adaptations that I have seen in recent years. It made me want to eagerly go and re-read the book, which is typically regarded as one of Wharton's finest.

[toni]

Oh it is a Pulitzer Prize winning book? :eek2:

I have that book already but haven't gotten the round of reading it.. I will soon.:)

[dramasnot6]

I say Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy from Pride and Prejudice are one of the best couples :)

Most agreed! :)

I think Winston and Julia form 1984 are a great couple too! Fascinating and very strong chemistry there.

[Taliesin]

Speaking of C&P, what about Svidrigailov, Dunya and Razumikhin? We know that it isn't much of a love triangle, since Dunya doesn't have much doubt when choosing between Razumikhin and Svidrigailov, but the scene between Svidrigailov and Dunya (you know, the one where Dunya has the pistol) is a splendid scene.

[downing]

Scarlett-Rhett-Ashley(love triangle)

[Sunflower]

Scarlett-Rhett-Ashley(love triangle)

:thumbs_up

can't agree with you more

[SoundOnPekes]

Bertie Wooster and Honoria Glossop. That was never going to work.

[Yelena]

Clair Beauchamp and James Fraser from Diana Gabaldon's novels. She wrote 6 of them, and those who enjoy love stories and mysteries should definately read them!

[Felissa]

'Love in the Time of Cholera' Marquez's triangle Fermina Daza, Florentino Ariza and Doctor Juvenal Urbino is important one to mention I think.

Elisabeth Bennet and Mr.Darcy have expected ending as couple, I don't think they are so much interesting.

There are other examples, but I just thought of these since I've read those books recently.

[alec_ritchie]

Hannibal Lecter and Clarice Starling from 'Hannibal'.

It doesn't happen til the end of the book but when it does it seems like such a morbid relief from all the sadness that both characters experience.

[bouquin]

love triangle - Constance Chatterley, Clifford Chatterley, and Oliver Mellors

[Woland]

Arthur, Lancelot and Guinever

[F.Emerald]

Lolita and Humbert Humbert are one of my favourites, they have a fascinating relationship. Although some might say they're actually one of the worst...what with the incest and paedophilia.

I also like Winston and Julia from 1984, as someone has already said, and Dianne and Mark from Trainspotting.

Worst couple I can think of is perhaps Curley and Curley's wife from Steinbeck's 'Of Mice and Men'.

Finally; interesting triangles - The Great Gatsby, of course, and A Tale of Two Cities - Darnay, Carton, and Lucie Manette.

[olichka]

Lolita and Humbert Humbert are one of my favourites, they have a fascinating relationship. Although some might say they're actually one of the worst...what with the incest and paedophilia.




I haven't read the book, but I saw the movie "Lolita" with Jeremy Irons, and I think that they do indeed have a " fascinating relationship ", in that, although perverse and depraved, it's laden with artistry and poignancy. Humbert is just totally obssessed with her, and for him she and his love for her is some sort of an artistic creation and a form of self-expression. Losing her completely shatters him, to the point that he's just raving mad with nothing to live for which indicates that Lo is not just a sexual obssession for him, but of a much deeper psychological, emotional and philosophical significance.

[olichka]

I say Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy from Pride and Prejudice are one of the best couples :)

Very true ! They certainly deserve each other, and the way their love grew (from mutual biased disdain to mutual appreciation and understanding and then love) is probably one of the most interesting and most realistic and sensible portrayals in literature. Quite often real-life couples start off like that; they rarely experience the "thunderbolt" while dancing at a ball that Vronsky and Anna did.

[carina_gino20]

i liked Anne Eliot and Frederick in Persuasion.

the triangle between Nastasya, Prince Myshkin, and Roghozin in The Idiot is in a way funny and pathetic at times.

[*Classic*Charm*]

Traingle: Gatsby, Daisy and Tom Buchanon from Fiztgerald's The Great gatsby.


Hear Hear!!!

I also agree with Christine Daae, Raoul, and him.

Best couple, hands down: Elizabeth Bennett and Fitzwilliam Darcy. Perfection.

[*Classic*Charm*]

Hannibal Lecter and Clarice Starling from 'Hannibal'.


The love is good; the way it finally comes to be, not so good.

[dramasnot6]

recently finished Crime and Punishment
That Sonia and Rodya have got quite some irony to their relationship, but also very good chemistry. I really enjoyed and was continually suprised by their relationship

[Inderjit Sanghe]

Cathy and Heathcliffe from "Wuthering Heights" have to be the worst literary couple-those two really, really would have been better off if they had never met!

[Cien]

Jane Eyre and Edward Rochester!

*sigh*... I adore that book. They're so wonderfully in love, and Jane is so noble, and Mr. Rochester so confused and hurt, and it's so beautiful... even though if I ever stop and think about the age difference it gives me the wierds. :S

*cough* The age differences makes me like it more.

[olichka]

*cough* The age differences ( re: Mr.Rochester and Jane ) makes me like it more.


Hear Hear ! It certainly makes it particularly romantic and sublime ! :blush:

Speaking of age difference, what about Natasha and Prince Andrey ?

It's interesting, how this seems to be the most popular thread on this forum ?! :bawling: