Sunday, June 23, 2019
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Monday, June 10, 2019
Looking at Love
Love through time
From Shakespeare to Fitzgerald
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Love has been represented in a myriad of texts over time. Ideas about love have been expressed in all forms of art and literature and yet, we must ask if the context in which a text is composed inherently influences the way in which love and relationships are depicted.
From Shakespeare to F Scott Fitzgerald, cultural attitudes to love have been revealed in the compositions shared with the world. The Shakespearean sonnets were composed at a time where patriarchal concerns meant that relationships were often confined to suitability and had little to do with passion or love. It was also a time in which men were restricted in their capacity to express their emotions (which is not that inconsistent with the 21st century) and yet, in Sonnet 18, the love felt by one for another is revealed without pretense or
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