The two major kinds of love that there are in this text
are best captured in the different feelings and emotions that Tita comes to have for
both Pedro and also John, the two men in her life. For Pedro, she comes to feel a
passion that is worrying and bewildering in its intensity and strength. For John, on the
other hand, her love for him is characterised in the peace and serenity that she finds
in his arms. The differences between her two emotions with these two men cause her to
doubt what love is, as this following quote
demonstrates:
Tita was beginning to wonder if the feeling of
peace and security that John gave her wasn't true love, and not the agitation and
anxiety she felt when she was with
Pedro.
In the end, of course,
Tita realises that the sexual passion and chemistry that she is forced to repress is
only to be found in her relationship with Pedro, and she exchanges a much more peaceful
and calm future with John as her husband for a much more difficult and precarious future
with Pedro. Even though in the end her and Pedro's love for each other causes them an
early death, it is clear that for Tita love has to be associated with truly being alive
and exploring sensuality in all of its many forms. This was something that would have
been impossible in a marriage to John. The different forms of love in this text are
therefore explored through Tita's relationship with the two principle male characeters,
Pedro and John, and the different feelings that both evoke in
Tita.
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