Love And Lust In Shakespeare’

Part I of Essay
sonnets Shakespeare’ sonnets are on a variety of themes such as time, love, gender, politics, sexuality, law, methaphysics and many others. They express strong feelings and strong arguments. However shakespeare struggle with love and lust is evident in his sonnets. Troug ....

Part II of Essay
.... two spirits do suggest me still: The better 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 corrupt 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 beuty’s rose might never die”. Another sonnet that express Shakespeare’s blame on women for being the symbol of passion is sonnet 29: “ A woman ....