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William Shakespeare Research Paper

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William Shakespeare is known all around the world for his literature. Shakespeare was a very successful writer and we still see his work from 400 years ago today. He wrote 154 sonnets throughout his life. Shakespeare sonnets tell us what was happening in that time of his life. It is very easy to determine Shakespeare’s feelings and emotions through his sonnets. It is still a big mystery on his personal life, no one really knows much about him besides being an amazing writer. One shocking thing I learned is that he was in fact gay. He was in love and admired The Prince. In many of his sonnets he mentions the Fair Youth and how he is attracted to him. Shakespeare reveals his feelings towards the Prince in his sonnets. Overtime his feelings grow stronger for the youth and they begin to change. Shakespeare’s attitude towards The Prince changes overtime and is shown in sonnet 20 and 126. His feelings for the youth is very different from sonnet 20 to 126. …show more content…

He states that nature’s own hand created him. He describes all of his features and compares them to a woman. In his sonnet he says “By adding one thing to my purpose nothing,” Shakespeare is saying nature made a mistake by adding that one extra thing(males part).Shakespeare believe that The Prince is meant to be a woman. The one extra thing that nature added prevents Shakespeare from being with the Fair youth. He ends the sonnet by saying “But since she prick’d thee out for women’s pleasure, mine be thy love and thy love’s use their treasure.” Even though he is

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