Shakespeare described a beautiful and unrestrained female image-Venus, the goddess of love, with exquisite metaphors and gorgeous language.
Venus and adonis is one of the two long poems written by Shakespeare when he was young. The image of Venus in this poem has been disputed by critics and readers. On the surface, Shakespeare subverted the positioning of male and female roles in traditional love poems and created a female image who actively pursued love. However, through the analysis, we can find that Venus is still the unfair construction of women by the author from the perspective of male-centered. This image not only reflects men's dual requirements for women's dedication and chastity, but also reflects men's dilemma between lust and reason.
Venus and adonis is humorous, fashionable and novel. It boldly shows pornography and even has no moral consciousness. Although the description of sex is more funny than erotic to us, in Shakespeare's own time, people often use the popularity of this poem to prove the moral decay of young people, intellectuals or (it sounds ridiculous) the Catholic Church. Thomas Robinson, an eccentric monk, described the happy life of a confessor and the nuns there in a booklet entitled Anatomy of an English convent in Lisbon published on 1622: "After dinner, he usually reads Venus and adonis and george peale. -1596, British playwright) or some other similar obscene books, because his room is almost full of boring pamphlets published in Britain. "