Karl Marx Sonnet Eight-7 Analysis

Sonnet eighty-seven is regarding a person who is so beautiful that the writer is longing for them again. However, the writer has the understanding that for this person, their beauty was of such high value, that the writer had to release them to share their worth (beauty) with the world. The character’s dynamic is the focus for the assessment of this sonnet, specifically from the intake perceived by Karl Marx and David Schalkwyk. Schalkwyk will take the stance of a service relationship and how it can be positively interpreted as; while Marx will be taking more of a negative stigmatization that a service relationship would have. David Schalkwyk views sonnet eight-seven as the ending of a service relationship. He describes this relationship process on page seventy-eight of “Love And Service In Twelfth Night And The Sonnets,” “…In early modern England, most of the population would therefore have spent some portion of their lives in service, and …show more content…
He defines the power structure in his “Wage Labor and Capital” as a power differential between the bourgeoisie (the capitalistic class) and the proletariat (working class). In order for the bourgeoisie to maintain their power, the bourgeoisie created a power imbalance to keep the proletariat class oppressed. When taking sonnet eighty-seven into this account for oppression, lines four and five exemplify this: “My bonds in thee are all determinate. / For how do I hold thee but by thy granting,” The writer here is admitting to having a power over the apprentice in a binding, perhaps by a mutual agreement. But it was this binding that has expired and should end, despite a selfish motive as per wanting to keep the apprentice. This is particularly directed towards Marx’s concept of voluntary oppression, where the proletariat class allows for this suppression willingly, accepting and acknowledging this power