Published on: April 2026
LOVE AND ETHICS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SANGAM LITERATURE AND SHAKESPEAREAN SONNETS
Dr.P. Jeyasankar
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Love, as a universal yet culturally mediated experience, occupies a central position in both classical and early modern literary traditions. This study undertakes a comparative analysis of love and ethics in Tamil Sangam poetry and the sonnets of William Shakespeare. While Sangam Akam poetry encodes love within a socially regulated and ecologically symbolic framework, Shakespeareās sonnets foreground psychological complexity, individual desire, and moral ambiguity. Using a qualitative textual analysis supported by comparative literary theory and ethical criticism, this paper argues that Sangam literature articulates a collective ethical model rooted in harmony and restraint, whereas Shakespeareās sonnets reveal an inward, often conflicted ethical consciousness shaped by Renaissance humanism. The study contributes to cross-cultural literary discourse by highlighting both convergences and divergences in the ethical imagination of love.
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Jeyasankar, P. (2026). Love And Ethics: A Comparative Study of Sangam Literature and Shakespearean Sonnets. International Journal of Creative and Open Research in Engineering and Management, <i>02</i>(04). https://doi.org/10.55041/ijcope.v2i4.001
Jeyasankar, P.. "Love And Ethics: A Comparative Study of Sangam Literature and Shakespearean Sonnets." International Journal of Creative and Open Research in Engineering and Management, vol. 02, no. 04, 2026, pp. . doi:https://doi.org/10.55041/ijcope.v2i4.001.
Jeyasankar, P.. "Love And Ethics: A Comparative Study of Sangam Literature and Shakespearean Sonnets." International Journal of Creative and Open Research in Engineering and Management 02, no. 04 (2026). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.55041/ijcope.v2i4.001.
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