Motif
forbidden lovers separated by family and architecture
forbidden_lovers_separated_by_family_and_architecture
A motif of the Sacred Love and Longing family, within the sub-family Forbidden and Transgressive Love. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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roman
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE FOURTH.; lines 5945-6031 confidence: high
"They would have united themselves, too, by the tie of marriage, but their fathers forbade it"; their affection remains mutually inflamed.
The lovers are barred from marriage by their fathers and can only communicate through a crack in the wall between their houses.
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