Compose a 750 words assignment on love beyond borders. Needs to be plagiarism free! It is because of love, that two people from extremely different background can come together and transcending their social cultural or political reservations be united through the love they share for each other. However, despite the fact that love has been described as a beautiful, romantic and out of this world experience, it can also end up being unrequited and result in painful separations which can cause a great deal of pain and hurt even between people who love each other. For purposes of the discussion I picked two films, Pretty Woman. starring Richard Gere and Julia Roberts, I picked it because it engenders the love that can occur across an immense social, cultural and economic divide, where a rich sophisticated billionaire and a poor uneducated New York prostitute find love in each other. The Westside story is the next film, it is loosely framed around the plot of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and it portrays the pain and destruction that can ensure in the name of love resulting to separation and fatalities. Human beings have always tried to create divisions among each other. these range from social, to economic religious and financial just to mention a few. In the past many of them were formal classifications that were even supported by laws, nonetheless, in modern society there are hardly any laws that would allow discrimination based on such parameters. This is because it is natural for people to love without discrimination and despite the superficial restrictions that exist and are informally enforced by society people still find love outside their circle or social class. This is however often opposed in various ways ranging from subtle to extremes such as violence. Lovers have often had to fight to uphold their love especially across social and racial divides, in some communities or families, marrying from a different race are found acceptable. This also happens when lovers try to reach out to each other across different financial or family backgrounds, lovers, considering the passionate nature of love often completely disregard this restrictions. As a result, there ensures a conflict between the two sides. the lovers communities to separate them, and they heartily struggle to remain together, in many cases ready to fight against all odds. This has been a dominant theme in classic and modern literature and many films have exploited the con that almost results from such situations, its melodramatic value is often enhance by the fact that in many cases such situations are resolved dramatically. They either end up tragically with one or both of the characters dying or living happily ever after both affecting the psych of the audience by pleasing or disappointing them. In Garry Marshalls Pretty woman, the union between the two leading characters from any perspective is a very unlikely one, they come from two very radically different backgrounds. Edward Lewis is a millionaire business man who raids, splits up and sells off companies in trouble. They meet when Edward gets lost in Hollywood and she offers to drive him to his hotel, he takes al liking for her and they agree to enter a business relationship, she would be his escort for the duration of his stay in Hollywood for 3000 dollars. From their initial differences one would not expect they would have anything in common, yet despite their differences they have a lot to talk about and teach and learn from each other. After spending good time together and understanding one another they come to know each other more than just as a working girl and her client. they become friends and slowly develop feeling for each other.

She is not educated and does not speak any language except Bengali l and lived a poor life. As the movie proceeds the Nazneen have lived 16 yrs with her husband in London city and is also shown to have two daughters. She is now a woman who speaks English, and is a housewife in London city. However, her mind and soul is still in her village, remembering her loving sister with whom she had spent her childhood in joy. Life has changed for Nazeen but her emotions are numb because she is married to a person, she does not love. As a young woman, her passions are still unquenched and are living a life of frustration. Her love life with her husband is bland and she has no emotional connection with him. While comparing to her young age, she is much silent, unhappy and nostalgic. She lives in her childhood, even after leaving the village at a young age. The only best time in her life is one which she has spent in the village and she is holding on to it to give her happiness and joy. As days pass by she gets acquainted with the clothing worker Karim. She buys a sewing machine and starts stitching clothes and tries to become engaged in some productive work. In due course, she romantically gets involved with Karim and this gives her a new life. Every day she waits for him and they spent some lovable movements at her home and ultimately physically get involved. After getting intimate with Karim, a new energy sparks in Nazneen and she perceives life in a different way. She discovers herself after coming in contact with the handsome and young Karim. Nazneen become more lively, energetic and even her family notices the positive change in her. As they love prosper, her husband comes to know about her liaison with Karim and sarcastically threaten her. At the same time , event of 9/11 strikes America and the Muslim community experiences a threatened environment in London. Upon this news, Nazneen’s husband decides to leave London and go back to Bangladesh. But towards the end of the movie, Nazneen transforms to a strong- willed, bold woman who has ideas and principles of her own. She confesses to her husband she wants to liven in London and stays back there with her children as an independent woman. The article “Geographies of Inclusion/Exclusion: British Muslim Women in the East End of London” by Halima Begum throws light upon the life of Bangladeshi women and their gender identity in context to Islam community in East London. The article talks about the life of Bangladeshi women in London who come from rural areas of Bangladesh. These women get caught in the atmosphere of cosmopolitan cities and suffer identity crisis. In the article author writes that” The promise of inclusion for young, working-class Muslim Bangladeshi women remains an unfulfilled project in contemporary Britain”. This could be related to the scene in which Nazneen looks at the sewing machine and feel helpless in buying it. It shows the kind of atmosphere in which Bangladeshi women live where they have no right to get employed and contribute to the society. According to Begum “For many young British Bangladeshis, Islam in the United Kingdom is more about bringing the ‘modern’ back from Bangladesh into East London’s communities”. This could be associated with the scene where Karim persuades Nazneen to stay back in London as an attempt to make her modern and independent.Karim being a person born and brought up in London is also religious man.