Crush, lust, admiration or respect, Love can mean different things to different people. The filial love you feel for members of your family is very different from the passionate, erotic (from Eros, the Greek god of love) feelings you have for your mate. You can love your friends, but that sort of platonic affection is very different from what you feel for your boyfriend (Dorothy, Charlton, 1952).
Love and Lust in Shakespeare sonnets Shakespeare sonnets are on a variety of themes such as time, love, gender, politics, sexuality, law, metaphysics and many others. They express strong feelings and strong arguments. However Shakespeare struggle with love and lust is evident in his sonnets. Throughout the reading of Shakespeare sonnets I can perceive that he is a profound admirer of beauty; and he perceives beauty of different ways. There are some kinds of beauty that he considers good for his spirit, and others that he considers bad or evil for his spirit. The beauty of the sun, earth, and sea for example are good for Shakespeare; On the other hand the beauty of women is evil for him, because it persuades him to act with lust. Here initiates the dilemma that causes the struggle he has with love and lust.
It seems that Shakespeare consider women as symbols of lust, since their beauty seduces men and makes them act in response to the evil desires that are inside of them - desires of the flesh - which corrupt the spirit. Two loves, I have of comfort and despair, which like two spirits do suggest me still: The better angel is a man right fair, the worse 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).
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