Love And Lust In Shakespeare’

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my female evil. Tempteth my better angel...and would corrupt my saint to be a devil” ( Sonnet 144, page 821, red book).
The beuty of women is the cause of lust, as it is also pictured in sonnet 1, when it says:
“ From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beuty’s rose might never die”.
Another sonnet that express Shakespeare’s blame on women for being the symbol of passion is sonnet 29: “ A woman’s face with Nature’s own hand painted Hast thou, the master mistress of my passion” (page 811).
Not only the beuty of women causes passion and lust according to shakespeare sonnets, but also the beuty of art seduces men to passionate and lust. In sonnet 128, the author is being seduced by the woman who is playing the instrument; however, in this case he does not feel seduced by the woman, but he is seduced by the song that she is playing:
“ Do I envy those jacks that nimble leap to kiss the ttender inward of thy hand...making dead wood more blessed than living lips” ...

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