Love and Lust in Shakespeare'

Love and Lust in Shakespe ar sonnets Shakespeare sonnets are on a variety of themes such as time, love, gender, politics, sexuality, law, methaphysics and many others. They express quick feelings and strong argu handsts. However shakespeare dispute with love and lust is straightforward in his sonnets. Troughout the reading of Shakespeare sonnets I can persieve that he is a profound admirer of beuty; and he persieves beuty of different ways. There are some kinds of beuty that he considers good for his spirit, and others that he considers bad or evil for his spirit. The beuty of the sun, earth, and sea for example are good for shakespeare; On the other hand the beuty of wo men is evil for him, because it persuades him to act with lust. Here initiates the dilema that causes the struggle he has with love ans lust. It seems that Shakespeare consider women as symbols of lust, since their beuty seduces men and makes them act in response to the evil desires that are within of them - desires of the flesh -which corrup the spirit. Two loves I have of comfort and despair, which manage two spirits do suggest me still: The expose angel is a man right fair, The worser spirit a woman, colored ill. To win me soon to hell, my female evil. Tempteth my better angel...

and would smirch my saint to be a devil ( Sonnet 144, page 821, red book). The beuty of women is the cause of lust, as it is also pictured in sonnet 1, when it says: From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beutys rose might never die. Another sonnet that express Shakespeares blame on women for being the symbol of lovingness is sonnet 29: A womans face with Natures own hand multicoloured Hast thou, the master mistress of my passion (page 811). Not only the beuty of women causes passion and lust according to shakespeare sonnets, but also the beuty of art seduces men to passionate and lust. In sonnet 128, the author is being seduced by the woman who is playing the instrument;... If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay

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