How we identify ourselves and fairy tales have one major thing in common: love. Fairy tales consecutively have a similar plot: love at first sight, tragedy occurs, then finding a way to reunite, and finally ending with a happy ending to life. Everyone has a common aspiration: to find their “prince charming” or their “princess” with whom they will spend the rest of their life; hopefully with a happy ending. It is difficult to identify since many elements influence it; however, love has a major influence on oneself. In Sonnet 138, "When my love swears that it is truth," Shakespeare uses a poet as the speaker and his mistress as the audience to convey the idea that although not everyone claims to fall in love, it defines the self by allowing us to lie to ourselves about who we are, thus creating an illusion. In the content of Sonnet 138, the poet exposes both the nature of his relationship with his beloved and the uncertainties he has about her maturity, which ultimately leads him to adjust the self according to the ideals of her lover. The poet, or speaker, is a hopeless romantic who believes that "O, the best habit of love is to belong to trust", implying that the most beautiful love is that which forgives and pretends everything was fine (line 11). From this point of view, he exonerated his mistress from all the wrongs she committed. He could only forgive him if he changed himself, by modifying his values. According to the poet's passion to describe her, she is a beautiful and young woman who does not want to be alone. The speaker has a preconceived idea that privacy makes everything perfect, while wearing a mask is just an illusion to hide the reality of who we really are. Further...... middle of paper ...... this will always become a negative influence. Since people don't want to be alone, they allow "[their] faults to be flattered by lies," meaning they let the lies help them forget their faults (line 14). Society has led us to believe that when we fall in love, we should feel butterflies in our stomachs, visualize fireworks when we kiss, and be filled with immense happiness. So, love is the best thing that can happen to us. Sonnet 138 depicts affection as being the complete opposite by telling us that our idea of ​​affection is nothing but a deception. In reality, to be happy you have to get used to a life purely filled with lies. We are willing to adjust who we are in order to maintain this feeling of affection even though we know it is just a simple misconception made up of distinctive masks that hide who we really are..