Shakespeare Life Is Worth Suffering Essay

Contrary to popular belief, even some of the most admired role models in the world of famous old celebrities deal with feelings of self deprecation, and one of those people is Shakespeare. Shakespeare constantly felt as if he could be better and like he was never good enough, and only wanted to be looked upon and recognized for his amazing talents, not for his gifted writing. Although he spent a long time wishing he was a different person living a different life, he soon realized that he in fact did not, for he had discovered something. The difficulties of life are worth suffering through for the simplest feeling: love.
There are many difficulties in life that makes it seem like it is not worth suffering through. Shakespeare uses the synecdoche for eyes, specifically how he feels shamed in …show more content…
Shakespeare uses the image of the Lark to show that suffering is worth it for love. He wrote, “Like to the lark arises at daybreak it sings and flies. It delivers its song to “heaven's gate”( Shakespeare 1). Here is saying that he arose from the “sullen”, dark, earth and flew away to the gates of bliss and contentment because of the love that was given to him. More importantly, Shakespeare uses the comparison of himself to a king to show how even the memory of love is worth all the pain in the world. In the lines “For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings, that then I scorn to change my state with kings,” Shakespeare was stating that he would rather have love than be a king (Shakespeare 1). In the poem, he is talking about how love destroys sadness and trumps being a king. Often, wealth causes one joy up to an extent that only love can surpass. The richest people aren’t always the happiest because even some of the most common things are unattainable to them, which is why Shakespeare would rather choose love over royalty and writes that it is worth the difficulties that life throws at