Conceptual Metaphorical Study On Shakespeare’s Views Of Love And Lust

Love and lust in Shakespeare’s sonnets has been a hot topic of all schools of criticism of Shakespeare’s Sonnets. However, traditional comment version and biography studies are inevitably falling into empiricism because they are lack of historical evidences.Shakespeare’s Sonnets are full of metaphors. Based on conceptual metaphorical theory, this study analyzes sonnets (Sonnet127-152) which are dedicated to the dark lady and then finds the mapping relations between the source domain and the target domain of all love metaphors in the sonnets. It builds up systimaticity and similarity on these mapping relations and then reveals Shakespeare’s views on love and lust in Sonnets. They are:love and lust is passionate (surging like sea water); love and lust is irrational (morfibic and blinding); love and lust is inextricable (irresistible of deceptive transaction, of bloody war, of torturing slavery).Furthermore, under the study of comment version, the study continues to testify our findings about Shakespeare’s views on love and lust those vehicles reflect through consulting Shakespeare’s plays and Freudian analytical psychology.