Shakespeare's story Love Labor's Lost focuses the story on the endearing lust of men. Women are a powerful force, so to persuade them, men will try to use various resources in order to attract the opposite sex. Men often use their primal instincts as a mating call, which today might be the equivalent of whistling at a passing woman. With the use of lies to tell a girl what she wants to hear, musk cologne to make you appear more sensual, or the clichéd use of the love poem, men strive to please women with the intention of carving their way into the future. 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. Nevertheless, whether it was honest love or perverse desire, Shakespeare, like most men, sought to charm women. Keeping this understanding of Shakespeare in mind, his weapon of choice, to find his way to a woman's heart, was his power of writing. In Shakespeare's writing of Love's Labour's Lost, he shows us some of the struggles that men and women will always face. face, in a man's timeless struggle for a woman's heart. His characters in this book do not always achieve their ends. The majority of the play tends to focus on many of his character's flaws rather than his virtues. First, the men in the play attempt to make sacrifices to improve their minds and studies. King Ferdinand of Navarre and three of his lords: Dumain, Longaville and Berowne, vow to abandon the pleasures of the world for three years to pursue knowledge and keep each other company using only books in order to gain respect in as scholars. . Ferdinand drew up a contract which... in the middle of a paper... swore to Jaquenetta to hold the plow for his sweet love for three years. Holofernes, Sir Nathaniel, Costard and the other actors in the competition then present a song about spring and winter. Don Adriano speaks the last line of the play, "You this way, we this way" as the men and women leave. The “Lost” in the title accurately describes the fact that the men have gained nothing from their oath to their king. , and to the women to whom they declared their love. This shows that no matter how hard you try, love is powerful and often more important and gains more respect than staying true to your word. As ironic as the story ends, the men all break their oath captured under the spell that women often cast on men. Yet to truly get the girl, they are forced to fulfill an oath if they truly yearn for their wife's hand..