In Love's Labor's Lost by William Shakespeare, King Ferdinand and his
             Berowne, Longaville, and Dumaine, take a vow to swear off women and
             studies. This vow only lasted long enough for each man to lay his eyes on
             Rosaline, Maria, and Katherine. The women receive love letters and gifts
             trying to woo them. Although the ladies are flattered, they are disappointed
             abilities to easily breaks their vows. Throughout the play, the men try to
             ever really interacting with them because they are ashamed of the breaking of
             The men decide that they will woo once and for all at the masquerade that
             attending. The women, on the other hand, have a completely different idea of
             The women wear masks and plan on embarrassing the men, who are dressed as
             by not revealing their true identity. They can not believe the deceitful
             on teaching them a lesson. The princess says, "Therefore I do it, and I make
             will [ne'er] come in, if he be out./ There's no such sport as sport by sport
             theirs ours and none but our own;/ So shall we stay; mocking intended game,/
             mock'd, depart away with shame." (237; V, ii l. 151-156). The masks that
             wearing symbolize how they have hid their anger and frustration toward the
             never expressed their disgust with them prior to the masquerade and feel it
             men how foolish they have been for breaking their promises. The masks also
             women were afraid to let their true feeling surface. A mask is a cover;
             covering up their inner thoughts and feelings about the mens' actions. It is
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