
A prime example of a rake would be Pechorin in the novel A Hero Of Our Time, who manipulates Princess Mary into falling in love with him and attempts to maintain a relationship with his past lover while having romantical relations with Princess Mary. In many novels, men are portrayed as acting in a chivalrous manner in attempts to attract women, but they often end up being rakes: men considered to be womanizers or men who have slept with many women. Everyone defines romance differently: some think that crazy gestures to be romantic and others think that such gestures are not representative of true romance. These romantic values become embedded in a person’s brain based on the way that they are brought up and the romantic relationships they they were exposed to. Such ideas include buying a woman a car, or a house, or a huge diamond ring.

People generally adopt ideas of being romantic from movies and novels. The way that parents act in their relationship is how children believe that partners should act in such relationships. The first couple people normally observe is their parents.

People everywhere see married couples and how they act. Romantic behavior is of a pre-established role. Chivalry in modern society is essentially depicted as the way that a man utilizes politeness and other manners to woo a woman and show them that he loves and respects them.

During the period known as The Medieval Times, knights and other forms of nobility sought to honor the code of chivalry to the greatest extent however, the values that are prevalent among the citizens of society have since changed with respect to the idea of chivalry, as ideals connected to the theme of knighthood have been followed to a lesser extent by the knights of the modern era, known as “gentlemen”. Chivalry is a code of conduct expressed in English law in the 12th and 13th centuries that communicated the manner in which a Knight should act. People often declare that chivalry is dead.
