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LIT 304 St Marys University Shakespeare Sonnets Comparative Paper

 

Choose one of the following themes explored in Shakespeare’s sonnets:

Option 1: Love versus pride

Option 2: Corruptibility of time versus romantic love

Option 3: Real beauty versus cliché beauty

  • Option 4: Conventional gender roles versus flexibility
  • Option 5: Love versus lust
  • Option 6: Betrayal versus faithfulness
  • Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper in which you analyze how this theme is treated in at least two of the sonnets. Select two sonnets that treat the theme differently. 
  • Summarize how the theme is presented in each sonnet, and compare the similarities and differences between the two. 
  • Explain how the treatment of the theme helps shape each sonnet.