How Does Shakespeare Show Beauty

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The way Shakespeare sees beauty is different from Keats and Petrarch, instead of praising his mistress he speaks only about her imperfection and he compares her appearance to the sun, coral and wire then tell how she cannot measure up to them, she doesn’t have a big eyes, nor red lips, neither a neat hair rather than a yellowish skin, hair like a wire, and bad smell. But even with all of these flaws Shakespeare shows his love by adoring her voice and the way she speaks more than her physical appearance. Das Parfüm : Die Geschichte eines Mörders is another literary work that has a beauty orientation by the German writer Patrick Süskind in 1985 and translated by John E. Wood in 1987 titled as Perfume: The Story of a murderer, the protagonist

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