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Many forms of media, television, films, and literature, contain genres and over time these genres gain certain principles and tropes that become linked to them. However, some films, such as Todd Haynes’s film, Carol (2015), challenges a major aspect that audiences associate with the romantic drama genre. Not only does this movie features a romance between two women, it proves a (slightly) ambiguous ending on whether this movie ends happily. Still, when considering the other major aspects found in this genre, Carol delivers on them. However, this fact doesn’t deserve criticism but rather an exploration into these tropes that find themselves in a genre, specifically the romantic drama genre. With sequences from Carol along with the information …show more content…

However, more intrigue about this entry stems from the fact that the Carol entry on this site contains the Your Cheating Heart as one of the movie’s tropes. On the TV Tropes site, Your Cheating Heart usually describes the main character cheating on someone else other than their main love interest, that person finds out, and leaves the main character. However, Carol flips this entry on its head because the movie’s protagonists don’t lose each other because they cheated with someone else; instead, the risk of exposure causes Carol and Therese to part ways. Still, since the movie contains some form of cheating done by both Carol and Therese towards Harge (Kyle Chandler) and Richard (Jake Lacy), the Your Cheating Heart applies to this movie. In addition to describing what usually occurs during a story that implements cheating, the entry illustrates bias that happens when the protagonist cheats. Depending on the movie, instead of the protagonist becoming irredeemable, they remain

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