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William Shakespeare’s Warning
Title: William Shakespeare’s Warning
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 882 | Pages: 3.8 (approximately 235 words/page)
William Shakespeare’s Warning
William Shakespeare uses “Sonnet 95” to reveal corruption of youth and beauty. More specifically, the sonnet speaks of the corruption of a young man due to his own “sins” (6) and sexual accomplishments and the glorification he earns from this. Shakespeare’s diction and meter clearly reveal this twisted tale of vice’s destruction of virtue. A critical analysis can evoke this tale and the warning Shakespeare makes to this beautiful young man regarding his life and …showed first 75 words of 882 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 882 total…distaste of this sin into praise. This privilege if “ill-used” (14) could become ineffective, and this young man could lose his charm, or “edge” (14). Shakespeare may also have intended to use a sexual pun at the end, and reveal that because of the many encounters, and the “blot” (11) transmitted to the man, he may lose his “edge” (14), (male phallic symbol) from the disease, which was most probably syphilis. Shakespeare humorously leaves it up to the reader.
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