The story of Hero and Leander is a type of forbidden love. No one stops them from being together, apart from the river. “LEANDER was a youth of Abydos, a town of the Asian side of the strait which separates Asia and Europe. On the opposite shore, in the town of Sestos, lived the maiden Hero, a priestess of Venus. Leander loved her, and used to swim the strait nightly to enjoy the company of his mistress, guided by a torch which she reared upon the tower for the purpose. But one night a tempest arose and the sea was rough; his strength failed, and he was drowned.” [ P1]
Forbidden love can come in many ways not just between economical standing of family disputes, some fight it but what comes to amaze me is that two forbidden lovers can never live happily ever after, they always die we can see this in the play Rome and Juliet by Shakespeare or in the movie The Lake House. “But one night a tempest arose and the sea was rough; his strength failed, and he was drowned. The waves bore his body to the European shore, where Hero became aware of his death, and in her despair cast herself down from the tower into the sea and perished.” [ P1]
Hero and Leander
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