In Love's Labour's Lost, we are introduced to a king and three lords, who swear upon an oath to study for several years without any distractions. All are acting naive to human nature, except for one.Berowne. Berowne sees the flaws in the oath from the beginning and tries to show the king and the lords, but the king blind sited by his stubbornness and the lords, by the will of the king. The use of Berowne's language to convey his half-heartedness is one of deceit. From signing to lying, from lying to deceiving, from deceiving to "freedom," Berowne shows the thought process of deceitfulness in which any other human being would go through in order to be liberated from the constraints that they place upon themselves ignorantly. Through this process of manipulation, we are able to relate to the very nature in which he is coming from because we would participate in similar actions to free ourselves from our mistakes. I believe that Shakespeare is showing that humans try to exceed their limitations and fight against their nature. Although we want to appear wholesome to others, once we find our chance to escape, we will do everything in our power to follow through. The plan of escape from the oath is to turn to Berowne. His oath in "jest," (1.1.54) in which they swore off food, sleep, and women, appears throughout the play and becomes apparent that he disguises his words in order to find a way to escape the burden of his oath, especially the abstinence of women, from the very beginning through his elaborate irony. Shakespeare is showing that love and food are a common way of living and to attempt to stir away from, yet they are the natural things needed in life. Shakespeare proves that the challenge of sacrifice of love and food are not true sacrifices but instead poor attempts at justifying a materialistic life on Earth. .
Berowne, at first discovering the unrealistic term, the abstinence of women and fasting, of the oath through discussion with the king, decides that he has "[sworn] in jest," (1.
