Shakespeare vs Watson On Love- Sonnet 116 and Watson 98.
As William Shakespeare wrote in Sonnet 116, and I quote “Love is not loving which changes when it finds a change in circumstance Or bends from its firm stand even when a lover is unfaithful; Love is the guiding north star to every lost ship. Whose value cannot be calculated, although its altitude can be measured? Love does not alter with hours and weeks. But, rather, it endures until the last day of life.” Sonnet 116 has a clear understanding of what Shakespeare thinks of love.
Everyone has their different views about love and their own definitions towards it when asked to define. For Shakespeare love is something that will never change even when the circumstances change. Love is seeing all the flaws and blemishes and accepting them, it is accepting bad habits and mannerisms, and working around them. Love is recognizing all the fears and insecurities, and knowing your role is to comfort. It is working through all the challenges and the painful times. Love is strong and it strengthens because it is real.
For Watson; love is a bittersweet feeling, where love is just an illusion, like an imagination that deceives you with a few promising moments and when the illusion is weary and the imaginations become reality, those exact moments become a destroying component. Infatuation is fragile and will shatter when life is not perfect. How can something be so fulfilling yet tormenting at the same time? How can one experience a thousand wonderful feelings and then be left with one’s memories reminiscing? How is Love defined into something that seems like such an amazing feeling yet once you’re in there’s no way out, there’s no way out to escape your feelings, your emotions, and most importantly the memories, all the mesmerizing moments that made your whole body feel electrified when you were living them but now feels like the saddest nightmares of your life, because they come back and haunt you each time you think you’re moved on.
People have different views on what love means to them, for some love might be eating at their favorite restaurant after a whole day of starving, for some it’s like handing someone a gun, and letting it point to your head, believing that they won’t pull the trigger. Love can vary from different feelings, emotions, and definition because we all have our own ways of portraying and expressing our loves. Watson and Shakespeare both have different views on love. Wanton believes that love is more of a bait thrown upon us where we are blinded by the beauty of it. Some define its beauty as lust, some define it as romance, some as appearance and some search the depths of their passion. The whole beauty of love is like being a soul that is captivated in between when death is called upon. Where the state is as such that the body is buried in the ground and the soul is risen up into the sky. We are often caught in between the charisma of love that in the beginning, everything seems to be so perfect and sweet but the more we keep falling deeper within the bait; the more we realize how everything that seemed so real is fake, everything that once was so sweet is getting bitter. As time is going by, the fantasies and fairytales are becoming more of a haunting tales.
Whereas Shakespeare believes, that love is truly a strong feeling and not just an infatuation or bait. It’s not the character that only matters but also the time that decides. Despite the situations and circumstances, if there is true love there will never be moments of facing anything alone. No matter how good or bad a person maybe, if there’s love, there’s always a reason. Chances and opportunities to fall back in love over and over