The Lady of the Camellias

Life is always complicated! And the book of Alexandre Dumas comes to strengthen this affirmation!
It passed more than 5 years since I read the book, and I recently had the opportunity to page through it again. I recalled the story of love lived by Marguerite Gautier and Armand Duval … she - a luxury prostitute, he - a young man who seemed not to belong in her world. Two people so different and still, eager to be together.

Both, able to surpass social standards, prejudice and “labels”, proving that love knows no limits.
The book offers you the opportunity of entering into another universe, of a woman used to live in luxury, who accepted men’s attention without having second thoughts. Still although she was very ill - found the courage to fall in love. But above all found the strength to sacrifice her love when a desperate father came to ask her to. The reason their relationship… compromised his children’s future! The young man left his family, and his daughter couldn’t marry the one she loved because his parents had high pretences for their daughter-in-law.

I do not pretend that in today’s world, women like Marguerite, are able to do what she did. Women admit sometimes their love to be deceived, but do not allow their ego to be wounded …
Certainly there were other writers who have chosen this type of woman as their main character, but no story managed to fascinate me so!