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Shakespeare’s treatment of the Sonnets
Title: Shakespeare’s treatment of the Sonnets
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1501 | Pages: 6.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Shakespeare’s treatment of the Sonnets
Shakespeare treated Petrarchan convention of the sonnets in his own way. First of all he changed the structure of the sonnet. Shakespeare’s Sonnets have more than one motif. Man was the object of praise. Shakespeare presents woman not as godlike, wonderful, perfect creature but as human with all his defects. Woman became a vile creature, a demon trying to take over man’s soul. Shakespeare also took note of physical love and more down-to-earth …showed first 75 words of 1501 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1501 total…the motif of the woman as the object of desire. Here the roles got completely mixed up. Vision of a woman as an object of unobtainable desire and unbounded beauty was brought to an end. Shakespeare sneers at false comparisons. Woman presented by Shakespeare is made of flesh and blood. Apart from the purest feeling that is love, there is also a dark world of lust, desire and sex. Shakespeare does not forget about that.
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