Without being presented with a reason for her appeal, how is a reader supposed to buy into a fundamental aspect of the triangle? Secondly, it’s all too common for the heroine to alternate between the two suitors, stringing them both along, while “struggling” to make her choice as to who she’s going to be with. Firstly, many writers fail to demonstrate what it is about the female protagonist that the two male suitors find so intriguing and alluring. If this wasn’t the case, I believe fewer people would come to view tropes in a negative light.Ĭontinuing with the love triangle trope I mentioned, there are three specific ways in which various authors use this trope that has made it so unpalatable to me. Going back to my love triangle example, while a small portion of my dislike can be attributed to personal experience, most of my negative feelings towards this trope is due to the all too often poor execution by many writers. Instead, it’s actually the manner in which said tropes are utilised that can trigger the aversion. I don’t recall when, but at some point I eventually realised that it isn’t necessarily the tropes, per se, that people take a disliking to. Such love triangles are rampantly prevalent in Young Adult books written by female authors, and my dislike for it has made me wary of reading any YA novels with a female protagonist. In particular, love triangles in which a female protagonist “struggles” to chose between two male suitors (the “nice guy” and the “bad boy”) who are vying for her affections, really aggravate me. As a consequence, the use of certain tropes can often provide disincentives to readers wanting to avoid books that rely upon a trope they dislike.įor my own part, on many occasions in the past, I have been “guilty” of allowing the inclusion of tropes that I am sick of, make me reluctant-even unwilling-to read books that were initially of interest to me the biggest offender being the love triangle trope. Given that common tropes invariably become clichés, the word trope has developed an immediate negative connotation in the minds of many people-the principle reason being the overuse of popular tropes in fiction. And, in science fiction, how many tales have been written of scientists whose creations turn on their creators, and wreak havoc upon the world? Many works of fantasy, for example, utilise the trope of the young orphan who (according to prophecy) is destined to save the day. In this context, tropes are prone to becoming clichés, and any literary genre you can think of has them. The term trope has a number of definitions, but for the purposes of this post it refers to a theme, convention or plot device that readers have come to expect in a work of fiction.
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