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 Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 6:30 am
I sometimes wonder if the heroines in romances novels are purposely made blander or uninteresting. I always like the male chracters in romance novels more, and find them more interesting, and i wonder if it's done on purpose, because female readers reading romance novels prefer to have a heroine they can put aside mentally while they identify with and create more of a connection with the male character.
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Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 12:33 am
I agree and disagree! I agree that yes, female readers, or at least I do, immerse myself more in the story by placing myself in it than really try to relate to the female character. I do not however agree that they are all bland and uninteresting. If i'm reading a story where the main heroine appears to not know her own mind, i'll put it down. Not because the story isn't interesting, but because those types of females bug the hell out of me.
There are a couple of stories where I've been bored to tears waiting for the male to do something special. Ex. A story I read called 'Rival Attraction' where it has that irritating female lead I described, but it also has a male lead who is so overly cautious that it takes forever for the story to get somewhere. I constantly screamed to the book 'GET ON WITH IT!!'
Maybe it depends on who is penning the story, maybe it's our own perception of how the characters should be. Who really knows.
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Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 1:02 am
Apparently there are 16 personality types and we all fit into them.
Like apparently I am a nurturer.
Your personality is decided on four different factors, such as do you make decisions based on your head or your heart
Based on your personality psychologist can predict how you will react to various situations
I wonder if there is a link between what we call the "Archetypes" and the personalities that apperently we all fit into (some personalitys are more common then others)
Anyway that is my rant on this topic. (ok this is not my first rant on this topic)
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Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 1:04 am
Kaze_neko There are a couple of stories where I've been bored to tears waiting for the male to do something special. Ex. A story I read called 'Rival Attraction' where it has that irritating female lead I described, but it also has a male lead who is so overly cautious that it takes forever for the story to get somewhere. I constantly screamed to the book 'GET ON WITH IT!!' Don't you hate books like that, you sit there going get on with it, do something. This is my exact feeling with Ron and Hermione. Come on all ready I have been waiting like three books for them to get together.
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Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 10:14 am
Another HP fan! Nice! biggrin Yeah, you could kinda see that something was going to develope in GoF. But you gotta take into consideration that this technically IS a childrens book and nothing too serious was going to be written about 14 and 15 year olds.
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Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 1:18 pm
Kaze_neko That's the thing. In alot of stories they DON'T develop at all! Maybe I should stop reading Harlies, the endings are pretty convoluted and generic. I've never actually read a Harli. The character development is what makes a book for me. If there's no room for change, the character just seems too unrealistic and I can't get into it. On the other end of the spectrum, if they're too unperfect and don't grow, I just end up wanting to smack the crap out of them. ):
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Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 1:22 pm
Page Boy I sometimes wonder if the heroines in romances novels are purposely made blander or uninteresting. I always like the male characters in romance novels more, and find them more interesting, and i wonder if it's done on purpose, because female readers reading romance novels prefer to have a heroine they can put aside mentally while they identify with and create more of a connection with the male character. I don't really know if I connect more with the hero, but I'm not sexually attracted to the heroine, so it makes the connection---different. xd I'll 'fall in love' with the male character, while I understand and empathise and maybe find a bit of myself, or what I want to be, in the female character.
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Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 10:00 pm
Kaze_neko Another HP fan! Nice! biggrin Yeah, you could kinda see that something was going to develope in GoF. But you gotta take into consideration that this technically IS a childrens book and nothing too serious was going to be written about 14 and 15 year olds. Yes I have to remind myself of that. My and children books don't always go so well together. I remember reading Arthur Ransome books and matching up which characters would get together with who when they grew up. Yes, some ppl would probably find that disturbing. sweatdrop
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