Trace the idea of truth and lies. What does the play imply about the relationship between truth and love? Between truth and language? How does this apply to human life?
We all know that truth is entirely different from lies. The truth is always the right thing unless there are different circumstances. Lying is not the best thing to do because nobody will ever know if you are being honest or just saying something that is not true. When reading Loves Labours Lost, you think more about the relationship between love and truth. In the play, the men make an oath to abstain from three things, but the most important one was no women. However, a princess of France and her ladies in waiting changed that and made them rethink their oath. They started to become attracted to these women. That's called a crush. King Ferdinand, Biron, Dumain, Longaville, and even the fool Costard, had a crush on a special woman. These men have completely fallen in love with these women, but they don't know about the women falling in love with them. The men are lovesick, but not each of them know about each others infatuation with the women except Dull and Boyet. The women are playing with their hearts which is really sad because that's not honesty or love. Their language and form of decorum shows that they are just playing with emotions of the men and they are totally dissing the contract.
"Good wits will be jangling: but, gentles agree: This civil war of wits were much better used. On Navarre and his book-men for here 'tis abused"
"Sweet health and fair desires consort your grace!"
That's worse than lying about it because you are pretending to love someone. When the men finally admit their feelings to the women, the women still kind of mock them. Later, the women make the men show their commitment to loving them by having them live their life alone for a year and then they can be together. Biron's special job is to make the sick smile with his power of wit. All these conditions must be met in order to prove their love to them. So you know if they are truly your love if they follow your rules and expectations. I definitely think the play tells about truth and love because you learn if there is dishonesty between individuals, and you also learn about what they will sacrifice to achieve love.
I think this very much applies to human life? When I think of relationships between love and truth, I think of high school. In high school, I could just be speaking as a skeptic, but what happens is that a boy may pretend to like a girl but then he's actually laughing about it behind your back. This shows total dishonesty because he is not telling you the truth about what he likes about the girl or why he is dating her? Girls are more likely to hear this and believe it. This could also happen to guys. Some guys are happy when they get the coolest girl to go out with them, but they could be making fun of him behind his back. Girls can be as mean as the guys, of course you could see that in this play. These men are so in love with these women and the women are just stabbing them in the heart. I look at my school and see some relationships last, while others don't because of lies and secrets are hidden from one another.
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