Mistress

immensely stylish and accomplished poet” until his narrative poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrence, which his reputation elevated even more “by [a] manuscript circulation of his sonnets” (Shakespeare 1170). In Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130 or “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun” is a poem that is part of a group of sonnets that “focus chiefly on the so-called Dark Lady as an alluring but degrading object of desire” (Shakespeare 1170). Sonnet 130 can be identified as a…

"Sonnet 130," the speaker's subject is his own mistress, while in Labé's the speaker seems to address her ex-lover, who is a mistress herself. In Shakespeare's, the speaker derives from the usual fantastical description of one's mistress. He does so by providing an embellished image, then juxtaposing it to a realistic description of his mistress, even somewhat mocking her: "And in some perfumes is there more delight/Then the breath that from my mistress reeks" (7-8). The speaker makes fun of…

idea of conventional beauty and it’s relation to realism, as well as the imperfections found in human features. It goes further to point out the difference between the two, and proposes which one is better, through the speaker’s description of his mistress and the admiration he feels…

contrasts of the Mistress and the Intended in his novel Heart of Darkness. The Mistress and the Intended represent the dichotomy of the Dionysian and Apollonian. Being a part of the African society already casts the Mistress into a lesser,…

journey to ultimately gain his ability to think through reading and writing. Douglass manages to pull this off by first speaking about his Mistress and their interactions, followed Mistress’ transformation, and finally, the detrimental effects of thinking. Douglass begins his narrative by discussing his case with…

Divakaruni’s “The Mistress of Spices” (novel) and Esquirel’s “Like Water for Chocolate” (novel) the authors used particular style of writing called magic realism. Magic realism is the term used to describe the fantasy of unexpected or unbelievable situations happening in the element of dream, fairy tale and mythology which combine every day. In “ Like water for chocolate”, the literature in the novel have bended with Mexican recipes and domestic life stories and appraisal of young women life and…

with all their flaws. It is possible to be able to love someone because of their flaws. The “mistress” is “nothing” “compare[d]” to the “sun”. The mistress is nothing but a flicker of a candle to the bright light of the sun. There are things that are brighter and the sun is supposed to represent the future so Shakespeare is saying that there are things that are brighter in his future than with his mistress. “Roses” are “far more red ” than the “red” on “her lips” and “sound[s]” are “far more…

Unfortunately all good things come to an end because “after master’s marriage all things changed” (p. 12). The new mistress used religion as a way to preach to them that they “were poor miserable sinners, with the wrath of God abiding on” (p. 12) them. This backs up Glymph’s claim that “the same mistress who put out a female slave’s eye at the dinner table, on Sunday mornings read the Bible to her slaves, punctuating the reading with pictures of the devil,…

patriarchal method for the objectification of women. However, poets such as Shakespeare and Marlowe alter the conventions of this trope. In his “Sonnet 130,” Shakespeare parodies the traditions of the Petrarchan sonnet through his description of his mistress. And in his poem Hero and Leander, Marlowe utilizes…

Hannah is a preeminent example of how slaves are taken away from their families, are deprived of education, forced to do manual labor, and are considered property of their masters. She also faces difficulty in maintaining her escape as she and her mistress run out of food and money immediately, were caught, brought to different places, and sold to owners. In addition, throughout her journey for freedom, Hannah depended on her religion and trust in God to give here the confidence and motivation…