Shakespeare in Love, Blog 2

The academy award winning film Shakespeare in Love has made interesting advances in the themes we have read from the play Romeo and Juliet. The theme of the different types of love has been the basis of the movie thus far. William's love for Viola is quickly transforming into a form of true love. This has not yet completely happened, but once the choice of love over family comes into play, the result of true love or lust will show itself. As of right now, what William could feel for Viola could simply be lust; their relationship has not been tested yet, Viola still plans on marrying the man that her father has prepared for her. The love he shows for Viola also has a bit of romantic love. He writes her one of his most notorious sonnets that compares her to a summer's day. Writing of sonnets is a red flag for romantic love. Bawdy love also plays itself in their relationship due to the secretive sleeping around they do and his comical comments about her breasts that he admits to the "man" in the boat. Even though these themes of love tend to separate each other into different relationships and mean different things, I do not see why one relationship cannot have them all. A true relationship should have a bit of every type of love; however, the most important type of love, in the end, is true love.