What are some realistic examples of forbidden love?
An interesting question. Here is a rather partial list: teacher/student: Plato’s Symposium; (Also Shakespeare does this briefly in the very lovely scene of Taming of the Shrew, III.i, in which Lucentio is disguised as the pedant). I know there are many good examples of this which do not come to mind. employer/employee: Sonnets of Shakespeare; comically in Twelfth Night (Malvolio/Olivia) races: Eurpides’s Medea (Medea was from Scythia, nearly southwestern Russia), Othello, Helena by Evelyn Waugh (between the British princess Helena, daughter of Old King Cole, and the Roman general, later Emperor, Constantius) classes: Pride and Prejudice (Elizabeth/Fitzwilliam Darcy) and Persuasion (Anne/Frederick Wentworth) are not really examples of this because it is only intra-gentility snobbery; Mansfield Park (Fanny/Henry Crawford, who do not eventually marry) and Emma (Harriet Smith/ Mr Elton and hilariously, Mr Knightley, at different times) are a little bit better because Harriet and Fanny are
