Shakespeare's story, Love's Labors of Lost, focuses the story on the tender lust of men. Women are a powerful force, so to convince them men will try to use a variety of different resources to attract the opposite sex. Men often use their primal instincts as a mating call, which today might amount to whistling at a woman as she passes by. With the use of lies to tell a girl what she wants to hear, musky cologne to make you appear more sensual, or the clichéd use of love poetry, men strive to please women with the intent to make his way into his heart. William Shakespeare is a man who, based on some of his other works, has a pretty good understanding and is full of passion for the opposite sex. However, whether it was honest love or perverse lust, Shakespeare, along with most men, aimed to try to charm women. With this understanding of Shakespeare in mind, his weapon of choice, for finding his way into a woman's heart, was the power of writing. In writing Love's Labour's Lost, Shakespeare shows us some of the struggles that men and women will always face. face, in the timeless struggle of a man for the heart of a woman. His characters in this book do not always achieve their goals. Most of the work tends to focus on many of the character's flaws rather than their virtues. First, show business men try to make sacrifices to improve their minds and studies. King Ferdinand of Navarre and three of his lords: Dumain, Longaville and Berowne, take a vow to abandon the pleasures of the world for three years to pursue knowledge and keep themselves company with the exclusive use of books to gain respect as scholars. Ferdinand stipulates a contract in which... middle of paper... they promised Jaquenetta to keep the plow for her sweet love for three years." Holofernes, Sir Nathaniel, Costard and the other actors of the competition then present a song about spring and winter. Don Adriano utters the last line of the opera, "You like this, we like this" as both men and women leave. The "Lost" in the title accurately describes the fact that men do not they gained nothing through their oath both to their king, and to the women to whom they professed their love. It shows that no matter how hard one tries, love is powerful and often more important and earns more respect than remaining faithful to. own word. As ironic as the ending of the story may be, all men break the oath caught under the spell that women often cast on men. However, to really win the girl, they are obliged to keep an oath if they really want her hand of their woman.