Sonnet 130 Ap Language Essay

The art of seduction has been accomplished in numerous ways throughout history and has always remained dependent on the assumed appeal of the person being seduced. In Shakespeare's “Sonnet 130”, the genre of Carpe Diem was exemplified with a largely satirical approach. In doing so, the speaker tried to appeal to his mistress by appealing to ethos with Aristotle's first version of ethos, appeal of your own good character, more specifically, will-power or arete, as well as Aristotle's second version of ethos, appealing to the character of one's audience. Shakespeare had the speaker attempt to seduce his homely mistress by appealing to Aristotle's first version of ethos, more specifically, the will-power or arete. In order to appeal to will-power, one is relentless in adhering to his or her principles. The speaker was relentlessly honest while trying to seduce his mistress in effort to make his true virtue evident
Tailoring an argument to appeal to an audience is how the second version of ethos was appealed to. The seducer profiled his audience, the mistress, specifically through social status. The seducer took advantage of the mistress's social status of the homely woman through criticism in effort to capitalize on her anxiety of ending up alone. This may have made the seducer more appealing to the scared woman because she had a large desire to avoid her anxiety. Both tone and diction play an integral part to the second version of ethos. The tone that was used was quite satirical in order to take away from the brutal words meant for the mistress. Meanwhile, the speaker used nature like diction to assist in appealing to the mistress. In using words like “sun”, “snow”, “roses”, and “sound”, the mistress may align with the fact that nature decided her appearance and decided how to judge her appearance as