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A 3 page paper which compares and contrasts Shakespeare’s Sonnets 138 and 139. No additional sources cited.
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and 139 are both sonnets of love, though they differ in one way or another. The following paper compares and contrasts these two sonnets by Shakespeare. Shakespeares Sonnets: 138
and 139 In his sonnet 138 the narrator speaks of how his love pretends truth and essentially plays games with him, presuming his is stupid to her lies. He accepts
this and all but embraces it as part of their relationship, finding it perhaps easier to let her believe this way, and he believe in his way, than to open
up all truths and rid the relationship of some mystery, or romance, or passion. In sonnet 139 the narrator is very dismayed by his lovers games and her ways with
him. He is tormented and wishes, ultimately, that she would just kill him rather than continuously make him suffer because he loves her so desperately. In these two sonnets
one can see that they are very different from the narrators perspective. In the first one he accepts her games: "Oh, loves best habit is in seeming trust/....Therefore I lie
with her and her with me,/ And in our faults by lies we flatterd be" (Shakespeare 138 11, 13-14). He lies to her allowing her to treat him like he
is young and ignorant and she lies to him about many things. But, he is happy in this, for truth is far more demanding and it is easier to play
this game between them and be happy. In 139 the narrator states, "O, call not me to justify the wrong/ That thy unkindness lays upon my heart" (Shakespeare 139
1-2). This narrator is in misery, but also clearly very much in love. He desires that she simply put him out of his misery, stating, "Kill me outright with looks
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