Pederasty: William Shakespeare’s Sexual Disorientation Revealed in His Sonnets

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People have personal life implied in their minds. Most of it are inspiring them that need to be reflected, such as on diary, agenda, etc. As the poets who have much imagination, their personal life can be reflected into their literary works. Regarding to this conception, the main focus of this study is to elaborate the meaning of William Shakespeare’s literary work, his personal life reflected into his literary work; sonnet. In his sonnets, Shakespeare expresses his admiration to a young man. Shakespeare’s abnormal feeling is called pederasty because he, as an adult male admires a young man. This final project has two problems to be explored; those are: (1) how is pederasty described in the sonnets? (2) what factors causes pederasty? In this final project, I employed a descriptive-qualitative method due to the result of the analysis that needs to be explained for a clearer conclusion. The analysis involves qualitative data which are interpreted and reported descriptively. In collect

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