Idealistic: Considering a love relationship not meant to be is in play, it is merely a fantasy that two people from different social classes would live happy by each other, but there are those who choose to keep on believing.
Illicit: In the middle ages, people were only allowed to marry those belonging to their respective social class. Therefore the idea of a knight courting a noblewoman (married or engaged, in most cases) would be considered a crime.
Brave: It takes courage to pursue with conviction a relationship that the high classes would tolerate, condeming the lower class individual to great peril.
Courteous: It goes without saying; courtly love carries chivalrous and polite elements within it.
Elie Wiesel never forgot his luck to be alive which made him use his memories of that trauma to persevere and work through any other conflict he might have.
