“Master Will, poet dearest to my heart, I beseech you, banish me from yours –I am to marry Lord Wessex-a daughter’s duty.” However Will and Viola continue to pursue their risky love, getting caught up in the romance and Will boasts to Viola “for one kiss, I would defy a thousand Wessexes!” As a twenty-first century teenager, the concept of a class system preventing two people who love each other from being together was new to me. Viola is quicker to come to terms with the inevitable idea that their love is ‘too flattering sweet to be substantial.’ The two are living in a brief ‘dream’, which can only last until Viola’s marriage to Wessex. Madden enhances this key idea through the use of dialogue in Will and Viola’s conversations. Ultimately, Shakespeare is successful in exploring the theme of love in The Tempest by presenting different approaches to the notion of love be it out of necessity, lust or protection, he creates a microcosm in which it is easy for love to manifest and develop because of the environment that the characters are in and these relationships are. Madden makes it clear to the viewer from the beginning of the film Shakespeare in Love, that the truth of love in sixteenth century England which is based on the idea of marriage as a method of obtaining social or financial gain divides the two protagonists who are separated by the class system.

This is worth leaning about because as a 21st century viewer I become more able to appreciate the struggle faced by the two protagonists, especially Viola as a woman, in the name of love. Madden portrays the harsh realities of the time through filmatic techniques such as dialogue, motifs and costuming to constantly remind the viewer throughout the film that the romance that is shared by Will and Viola cannot last in sixteenth century England. Through its two unfortunate protagonists, Will Shakespeare ‘a lowly player’ with writer’s block and wealthy Viola De Lesseps who dreams of ‘love as there has never been in a play,’ it explores the idea of ‘the truth and nature of love’ in the Elizabethan era. John Madden’s Shakespeare in love is a ‘romantic comedy’ set in sixteenth century England. The things the characters in Much Ado About Nothing do in the name of love must seem strange indeed to the modern reader. Love was one of the key aspects of Shakespeare’s works. To ordinary readers these sonnets are simply beautiful poetry.

Describe one idea worth learning about in the text. Comparing the Love Theme in Shakespeare 's' Sonnet 18' and Spenser 's 'Sonnet 75' Jacobson This paper is a comparative between Shakespeare 's 'Sonnet 18', and Spenser 's 'sonnet 75'.Both poets wrote a sonnet for a loved one, declaring their love. An essay on love theme in Shakespeare’s sonnets Introduction.

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