A. Rose Miller Period 5 11/21/2012 Lady’s Dressing Room Essay “A Lady’s Dressing Room” and Montagu’s Response The poem, “A Lady’s Dressing Room” is of a crude sort of off-color humor. I find it repulsive, in-your-face, and indecent. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s response was certainly understandable. The many insults she wrote toward men were justified considering what Jonathan Swift had wrote about women.
Shakespeare uses language, structure and dramatic devices to convey and create the effect of strong emotions through his ambitious characters, which is similarly portrayed in laboratory with the narrator’s strong and bitter emotions towards her husband’s infidelity. These characters can also be compared to the narrator of Porphyria’s lover whose intense emotions of love become too overwhelming for him to handle. Both Shakespeare and Browning show Elizabethan society as patriarchal, where men were considered to be the leaders and women subservient. Women were regarded as the weaker sex not just in terms of physical strength, but also emotionally. Women were also depicted as kind and caring as well as being the perfect mother and housewife, on the other hand men were portrayed as brave, strong and loyal.
In this essay, I will be showing a comparison between ‘Romeo and Juliet’ (Shakespeare), ‘To His Coy Mistress’ (Marvel) and ‘Sonnet 130’ (Also by Shakespeare). The first main comparison between these three texts is that they all show different types of love. ‘Romeo and Juliet’ is based on true love as both main characters fall in love with each other at first sight. Shakespeare shows their love by the soliloquy and the sonnet that he added to this text as the words and techniques used in them project a connection between Romeo and Juliet. ‘To His Coy Mistress’ shows an idea of a sexual and lustful love.
Poetry Compare and Contrast Love and Madness True love is the theme in the poem “Porphyria’s Lover,” by Robert Browning, and “Annabel Lee,” written by Edger Allen Poe. They were written in the same time period both having romantic notions, and share the same dramatic monologue style. Both are similar poems in their deranged views of love. However, the manner in which their beautiful lovers die and how they felt after their death, differ greatly. The men in both poems truly loved their women in the beginning, but by the end they had become obsessive, drove themselves to insanity, and slept next to the dead bodies of their lovers.
This is the theme of Love. I know this because William Shakespeare explains within every line of Sonnet 116 that love is forever and unbreakable. Marvell also uses the theme of love, but slightly differently. Marvell tries to persuade his mistress that he loves her, when really he just wants sexual intercourse with her. He uses persuasion at the start of the poem, but then starts charming his mistress by saying he’ll love her once they have sexual intercourse.
129-133). In contrast to this the Friar does not believe the accusation of Claudio. (“…If this sweet lady lie not guiltless her Under some biting error.” ll.168f) The reader or rather the audience is left confused and eager for the truth. The Friar does not only claim that Hero is without guilt but he also states that the guilt and therefore the lie derives from the princes. This would mean that the princes are double-faced.
He is describing how the man appears to him, physically and emotionally. In the sentences “But since she prick’d thee out for women’s pleasure/ Mine be thy love and thy love’s use their treasure” (13-14). Shakespeare is saying that since nature made the man to pleasure women, let him pleasure them, but let Shakespeare have his love. This is just one of many sonnets/plays of William
This shows us, that Shakespeare, unlike so many renaissance writers, isn’t a complete romantic and idealist when it comes to love; he is realistic and pragmatic. However, he goes on to suggest that unlike her physical appearance, her happy disposition will not fade and she will remain beautiful to him, “but thy eternal summer shall not fade”. Emphasizing the importance of falling in love with somebody’s character, which will not fade, in contrast to their appearance. Shakespeare never actually describes his beloved, he instead compares her to classically beautiful images, like summer, heaven and calls her fair. This could imply that she wasn’t physically ‘perfect’ but it was instead her personality that reminded him of a summer’s day.
On line 97 Mercutio says ‘to hide her face, for her fan’s the fairer face’ this contrasts Romeo and Mercutio’s personalities as Romeo would never say something like that. Lines 95-130 create dramatic irony
In Act 1 scene 5, Lady Macbeth describes Macbeth to be “full of the milk of human kindness” Shakespeare uses this phrase to acknowledge Macbeths virtues, however lady Macbeth cunningly uses his kindness as a fault of his own, as she shays that he is “too full” of kindness. This shows that Shakespeare can cleverly uses short sentences, to build up qualities of the charter without the need to write them. Lady Macbeths tone also changes when she says “what thou wouldst highly, that what wouldst holily.” There are no stage directions to state her tone changes to a deep whisper; however Shakespeare has used the meaning of words to show a tone of the voice change. We can clearly see that lady Macbeth has made her mind up to kill Duncan, because she says, “the fatal entrance of Duncan”. Macbeth describes Lady Macbeth to be his “dearest love” when he enters the scene this shows that they have a strong loving relationship, and Lady Macbeth gets straight to the point with her plans, she comes in strong and confident so he cannot undermine her.