William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

Introduction

There is no doubt that Shakespeare is the greatest writer of modern English to date - his plays have been made into movies, his sonnets have appeared in books and music, and his works translated in to hundreds of different languages. One of the reasons that the works of Shakespeare are so renowned is simply for the fact that he can beautifully create moments of happiness, sadness, glory, agony, misery, love, betrayal - and anything else which may fall in between. There are numerous situations in real life in which one person may fall deeply in love with another, but it will eventually turn out that it was never to occur in the first place. When it comes to Shakespeare, love is never meant to blossom in the plays Romeo and Juliet, Othello and other plays. This paper discusses views of love and hate in Shakespeare's writings.

Discussion

To understand Shakespeare's views of love and hate in his writings, Romeo and Juliet is the best choice. In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare first depicts Romeo apparent infatuation with Rosaline as "love not for the dame but for love itself", however after meeting Juliet, he learns about true love and became so lost and passionate within it that it eventually drove him to his demise. Hatred is also depicted quite a lot of times throughout the story, first, there was the Capulet - Montague rivalry, and in later scenarios, there was Juliet cousin and Romeo best friend getting killed, which in turns angers Romeo to murder Juliet's cousin. It depicts an ever continuing cycle of hate and death. (MacKenzie 2007)

When there are women and an omnipotent force to procreate there will be a number of resources that a man will use in order to attract the opposite sex. Frequently with the utilization of the infamous whistle/mating call, the continuous use of lies about the stench of musk cologne, income, or the ever-popular use of the love poem, men struggle to appeal to women with the intent to see his way to her heart. William Shakespeare based on his works, was full of enthusiasm for the opposite sex - whether it had been true love or perverse lust. Nevertheless, Shakespeare, like most males, wished to appeal women. With this having been so, Shakespeare's weapon of choice to be inwrought to a woman's heart was the powerful love poem. He recognized love and how to reach love and demonstrated this in his often praised sonnets. Shakespeare views on what is love put into prose allow all that read his sonnets to understand Shakespeare's definitions of love and lust. (Muir 2005)

Shakespeare not only says that love is invincible; he also states that love cannot be altered by time. Love does not survive on Monday and cease to survive on Thursday; love continues not considering of time. As stated before, love is forever young. The mind and the body, being tangible and finite, as time goes by, languish. However, love is a continuous flame that cannot ...