Marianne has this passion for him and her repression of it after he abandons her drives her into a deep melancholy. This kind of secret is also seen in Radcliffe's novel in Pierre de la Motte, and his son Louis, who both have a secret desire for Adeline. The man to whom La Motte owes money and is all powerful in the book, the Marquis tries to force Adeline to sleep with him. This kind of love is seen today where people are driven by love to do things that we normally wouldn't have done if we were thinking clearly. Once love and the desires for sex fill a person's mind they soon are led to sadness if it is not fulfilled.
Secrets also play an important role in our everyday lives.
Everyone has some kind of secret and if hidden too long and then suddenly brought out can cause a disaster to those around us. The Romance of the Forest is a gothic novel about Pierre de la Motte and his family getting kicked out of Paris and having to find refuge in an abbey. Adeline, the heroine, gets placed with them and finds out the truth about her past and her father. In Sense and Sensibility , a more realistic novel, the Dashwood girls lose their father and are forced to move to a small cottage. One sister loses a man who betrays her and marries another girl for money, while the other is betrayed also by love, fortune and money.