The main idea of Sonnet 116 is that true love overcomes time. It stays constant throughout a person’s life. This could be a subtle hint from the speaker to the boy that he needs to do what his parents obliged him to do, but even if he does get married and start a family with his wife, their love will always be there. Marriage, in this case, could be used as more of a legal term in order to fulfill everything that needs to be done in his position. Their love will always take precedence over this “contract.” The speaker even goes as far to say that true love is an “ever-fixed point.” In Shakespeare’s time, an ever-fixed point is another way to say a lighthouse. Lighthouses are stationary objects that are established as guides to help bring a ship to safety. Therefore, the speaker is stating that true love is forever there, and is used as a guide in their lives until the end. In the last lines of the sonnet, the speaker even goes as far to say that if their words aren’t true, then no one in the world ever loved. It just shows how serious the speaker is about this idea.
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