Pride and Prejudice) have romantic love as the main theme. In more modern times, romantic love has been the theme of art and entertainment in all its forms. Winning the love, or at least the attention, of the beloved, motivated great efforts of many kinds, such as poetry, song or feats of arms. The effect of physical attraction and impossibility of intimacy resulted in an excessive regard of the beloved as extremely precious. One aspect of romantic love is the randomness of the encounters. but dissolute and immoral love corrupts and degrades humankind. Married love preserves humankind, love of friends ennobles human beings. Love was one of the key aspects of Shakespeare’s works. Globalization of Western culture has spread Western ideas about love and romance.
Western society has historically emphasized romantic love far more than other cultures in which arranged marriage is the tradition. Probably due to its large psychological relevance, love is one of the most common themes in art. Others advocate the theory that love exists but is indefinable as it is metaphysical in nature. Some call it a recently invented abstraction. The concept of love is still a subject to debate. Love is essentially an abstract concept, easier to experience than to explain. Cultural differences make any universal definition of love difficult to establish. However, some cultures don’t even have a word for ‘love’. In religion, “Love is patient and kind love is not jealous or boastful it is not arrogant or rude… Love bears all things believes all things hopes all things endures all things.” It is safe to say that Love is a term widely used to show the fascination, material and non- material, for somebody or something. However, the most common form of love that exists in human is ‘the love of winning’. Even the deep pull toward nature, wisdom, learning, and adventure can be termed as love. Love can be a deep affection between a man and woman, mother and child, son and father, two friends, a dog and its owner and so on. Love is a strong feeling of deep affection for somebody or something. James Winny, writes: “The sonnets are among the most puzzling of Shakespeare’s works.” This essay on love theme in Shakespeare’s sonnets will try to point out the problems from a humbled reader’s perspective.īefore delving into the discussion of love theme in Shakespearean sonnets, we need to ask what love is. The problems with Shakespeare’s sonnets have taxed the minds of critics and commentators who have advanced many theories in an attempt to solve the problem. However, advanced users of literature simply cannot get away from the problems that raise from a detailed study of the sonnets.
To ordinary readers these sonnets are simply beautiful poetry.