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Venus and Adonis.
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... The purpose of this Paper is to analyze Shakespeare's narrative poem Venus and Adonis. It aims, further, to identify the two main characters of the poem: Venus, the goddess of love, and Adonis, an ordinary young man. It also intends to deal with its controversial subject matter, which has always been a topic of interest for scholars and critics. Venus and Adonis has been interpreted as everything from a noble love poem to an obscene tale of lust. Its debatable theme has been interpreted as going far beyond the story of how the goddess of love -Venus - fell in love with a young man, Adonis. Scholars often show a particular interest in Venus' attempts to make love and Adonis' refusals. The plot follows as Adonis abandons her and sets off to hunt a boar. When Adonis is finally mutilated by a wild boar, Venus is left alone suffering the
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