Women's Inconstancy In Paradoxes By John Donne

Women’s Inconstancy “Inconstancy is a most commendable and cleanly quality; and women in this quality are far more absolute than the heavens, than the stars, than moon, or anything beneath it, for long observation hath picked certainty out of this mutability.” From this excerpt of the text, it is certainly epitomized by John Donne, on his opinion of all the women of the world. The author saw women as amazing creatures on this earth, and through his writing in Paradoxes, he exemplified women’s changeableness, using metaphors and personification. John Donne uses metaphors throughout his writing to demonstrate women’s changeableness. Metaphors such as, “ and women in this quality are far more absolute than the heavens, than the stars, than moon, or anything beneath it, for long observation hath picked certainty out of this mutability.” This specific textual evidence allows Donne’s readers to fully understand how majestic and beautiful, …show more content…
“Therefore women changing more than men have also more reason, they cannot be immutable like stocks, like stones, like the earth’s dull centre.” The importance of this evidence is that Donne expresses men changing as monotonous and uneventful. All while a woman’s changing is the complete opposite. Women’s changeableness maybe described as resplendent or glorious. Donne continues to use personification to demonstrate his opinion on women’s changeableness. “ To conclude, therefore, this name of inconstancy which hath been so much poisoned with slanders ought to be changed into variety, for the which the world is so delightful, and a women for that the most delightful thing in the world.” In this explicit textual evidence, Donne highlights the negative connotation, which conveys women’s changeableness as despondent. Donne instead wants to abolish these negative beliefs, and instead wants to promote women’s changeableness as awe-inspiring, or