Question

Shakespeare’s "Sonnet 65" is a meditation on beauty, the inevitability of death, and immortality. Respond to the following question in a journal entry of about 150 words: Imagine scientists have created a medicine that allows you to live forever. They’ve offered to give it to you for free, no strings attached. Would you take it? Why or why not?

Answer 1

If scientists made medicine to live forever with no strings attached then maybe I would take it. It depends on who it is handing me it, If it was a bad person then no but if they were good people then maybe, I would only do it if my parents told me to. Did you know Sonnet 65 is by William Shakespeare and is one of several poems that discusses time, aging, and what writing can and cannot do to fight against these forces? Shakespeare's central theme is the opposition between the transitory, delicate nature of beauty and the devastating effect on the beauty of mortality and its principal instrument, time. The opening questions seem rhetorical, indirectly arguing the poet's conviction that beauty is no match for aging and death. Again I wouldn't know what to do if doctors or scientists gave me random medicine then I don't know. I know if the medicine was important then my parents would give it to me not random scientists.