... certainty in this life is change. Each day brings new order to unorganized chaos. Whether we like it or not, life's unending train ride carries us to undiscovered destinations. Shakespeare's Sonnet 60 seems, likewise, seems to take us on a little journey through time stressing the many different facets that exist as we go through this thing we call life. I seem to get ... a vision through his lines that they create a link one to another, much as our life moves on from one experience to the next. The opening line of this sonnet begins with, "Like the waves make towards the pebbled shore"...

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• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

... how the excess of passion can make a person do crazy, unexpected things; and how acting out of pride or rage is very dangerous. "Cupid," the sonnet form and "Fortune," all play a role in showing these two concepts in what is considered by many to be Shakespeare's masterwork. The motif of Fortune ... thou with him That is renowned for faith? Be fickle, Fortune, For then I hope thou wilt not keep him long, But send him back" (3.5.60-4). What she means by this quotation (on the last night her and Romeo spend together, as he is slipping into the darkness) is that she wants ... play's entire ...

• Word Count: 1327
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• Grade Level: High School