Othello says to her “It gives me wonder great as my content to see you here before me. O my soul’s joy!” (2.1.199-200). These beautiful and loving words are soon changed to hostility and rage with the thought of Desdemona’s betrayal. Both Desdemona and Hero are accused of being unfaithful through presented “ocular proof”, they are both disgraced by the leading male role, and they are young and inexperienced in the ways of love and both women are extremely forgiving after they have been mistreated by their suitors. Much Ado about Nothing was written by William Shakespeare as a comedy, but it could have very well been turned into a tragedy comparable to Othello.
William Shakespeare’s sonnet 130, “my mistress eyes are nothing like the sun”, is nothing like what people are used to hearing in a poem describing a woman. In fact, sonnet 130 is the direct opposite of the traditional romantic love poem. “My mistress eyes are nothing like the sun” is another way Shakespeare creatively expresses his opposition to conformity and his advocacy for women’s natural beauty. Given the contexts of this literature within this unit’s study of the feminist lens in AP English IV, it is evident that in sonnet 130, Shakespeare perpetuates feminism. It is reality that not all women will fit one standard of beauty, but is it fair to praise one woman's seemingly distinguished beauty?
The simile used in this quote emphasises the lack of fidelity within both texts. Even thought the women are portayed as unfaithful in both texts, so are the men. In 'cosi fan tutte' the men do not participate in adultary however they both disguise themselves as albainians. Their deception is a betrayal of their wives trust. As seen in 'cosi', when the stage lights black out, lewis shares a kiss with Julie, however later on it's revealed that julie has a girlfriend she'd rather be with.
With the case of Much Ado, Shakespeare states that a “Man is a giddy thing...” (V.IV.75), stating that men are impulsive and frivolous as to relationships. And with the same token, Wilde writes “I really don’t see anything romantic in proposing. It is romantic to be in love.” (I.1.3.) meaning that marriage isn’t romantic. He even takes it a step further stating, “The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
Half-caste John Agard is saying that people are to obsessed with purity and he is trying to say that people calling him half-caste think he is somehow less pure than them. He is attempting to change that by using phrases like ‘when Picasso mix red and green/is a half-caste canvas’. By using this he is saying you wouldn’t say this about Picasso’s paintings because they are beautiful so why would you say that about a person. The poem is about the poets annoyance and sadness of people using the phrase half-caste. The poem has a sarcastic tone to it and I think it’s to show how he thinks that people are not thinking when they use this phrase, he expresses this by saying “when you say half-caste/yu mean when Picasso/mix red and green/is a half-caste canvas”.
How could anyone in a clear state of mind desire marriage after being exposed to such a brilliantly devised sequence of bitter-sweet remarks on the institution of marriage? In essence, when the bubble fireworks are out, Wilde’s play reveals its thorns, and they are aimed directly at the institution of marriage. Despite the happy ending, The Importance of Being Earnest takes a perfectly satirical stance in regards to the institution of marriage. Oscar Wilde takes pleasure in deconstructing the pristine facade built around the concept of marriage by Victorian society, and he is fearless in attacking its conventions. Wilde’s play does not celebrate marriage as the ultimate alliance by love, instead preferring to expose its “unstylish” side stained by hypocrisy and shallowness.
Machado way of expressing his ironical approach to writing gives the women characters a dilemma attitude especially when he infers that the best way to define love in the world is not worth one kiss from the girl you love(pg 60). Allende on the other hand foreshadows much of the sensuality of the stories in the Prologue, as the Carle and Luna rest after love making, and in the painting that is their images, their skin gleaming moistly and lying in intimate complicity. Onetti portrays love and women as geared by unreasoned sexual desires and so women presents a distorted image of men, but Allende depicts women as the main cause of suffering irresponsible men inflict left to rear the children in
A goddess walks by as the next line is read and while she is more beautiful than anything visualized up to now she is too perfect to truly desire. An average woman walks down a forest path barefoot and in a dress, she is not perfect and makes no claims to be. However, visualizing her causes stirrings in the heart, she makes you want to scream out your love for it is stronger due to her flaws for they make her more human (Shakespeare 631). Here we give one of [Shakespeare’s] sonnets (probably written in the mid-1500s), in which he playfully rejects similes and other figures of speech. His contemporaries often compared a woman’s hair to fine spun gold, her lips to coral or to cherries, her cheeks to roses, her white breast to snow; when such a woman walked, she seemed to walk on air (the grass did not bend beneath her),
There are lots of points of comparison between 'Sonnet 116' by William Shakespeare and 'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell for example, though To His Coy Mistress talks about love being a fleeting experience it is three times the length of Sonnet 116, this draws contrast between the two poems. By defying your expectation that the structure would reflect the nature of love, it instead highlights it. Sonnet 116 talks about love as an abstract concept and presents the idea that love in invaluable "Whose worth's unknown" whereas To His Coy Mistress presents the idea that beauty and through that love fades with age, ‘Thy beauty shall no more be found,/ Nor, in thy marble vault’ this shows that although they were writing at very similar times they both had quite different ideas about love. Both poets are writing metaphysical conceits and the ideas that they present aren’t for a specific person, shown by Marvell writing; ‘His Coy Mistress,’ and Shakespeare by writing as an abstract thought. Although both poets are writing purely for entertainment, I take the ideas that they present as their own, and they are very different opinions on love.
Othello and Desdemona In the play, The Tragedy of Othello, Shakespeare really tests our conception as to what love is, and where it can or can't exist. Judging from the relationship between Desdemona and Othello, the play seems to say that marriage based on an innocent romantic love or profane love is bound to fail. Shakespeare is pessimistic about the existence and survival of a true type of love. There is a common thread of betrayal and deceit among his female characters, especially. Othello and Desdemona, as portrayed in the play, are the two greatest innocents there ever were.