Romeo And Juliet Love Essay

Throughout all the texts we’ve read in class by William Shakespeare, we have seen love depicted in multiple different ways, from paternal and pathological to romantic and even erotic. The love that we have seen has been conducted in many different forms as well, including familial, homosocial, and hetro/homosexual; Shakespeare has showed these types of love in varying degrees of sincerity. Shakespeare’s sonnets are a perfect example of how he depicts love in different forms. He uses the speaker (possibly himself), the young man and the dark lady to show multiple degrees of love written in many degrees of sincerity. In his early sonnets we see Shakespeare writing about, what we can assume is homosexual, and romantic love with the young man. But by the end of the sonnets we can see that the love Shakespeare is writing about is obviously more erotic and heterosexual in nature and it includes the dark lady. There’s a saying that describes love as being blind, which for the most part can describe romantic love pretty spot on and for the speaker in the first 18 sonnets this is especially true. Romantic love is a sort of infatuation and …show more content…
Erotic love is different from romantic love in a few different ways, the first being, with erotic love there is always the knowledge that we will die, and probably the most obvious aspect of erotic love, sex. In the sonnets 127- about 152 the speaker talks about a relationship that is erotic in nature as well as being full of lust and desire. The object of the speakers affection, if you could call it that, since there is obvious hints at his distaste, is as previously stated, the dark lady. The dark lady is described as being sexual, dark, mysterious and even earthly in nature, which is a direct opposition to the young man being described in the earlier