Does stratagem have more of a positive or negative connotation? explain your answer.

Stratagem has more a positive connotation than a negative one based on the fact that it is used to defeat an enemy after analyzing the situation.

Explanation:

Stratagem is a concept that is viewed from two very different strong points of view. The first one is a bad one or negative one because it relies on to emphasize the fact that the user of the stratagem deceived or misled someone else to achieve an advantage over him or her. Nevertheless, a stratagem is not particularly bad because the user misled his or her enemy. Because it is used to achieve a victory against him or her. Without a conditional clause that it has to be an unjust cause. Therefore it is more positive than negative. Because even though hiding information or misleading could be perceived as a bad thing. In the case of misleading a murderer or kidnapper to fall into a trap, well it is good. So, it is more positive than negative, because it is inherent to the cause. It is just a tool, also it goes into a moral debate about doing what is wrong or right, while something bad can be good in other to survive or save someone else. Like misleading Hitler to saver the world. So it is just a tool inherent of intention.

a.) literature that explores grotesque characters and eerie, violent occurrences in a dreary setting.

1.   in sonnet 18, the speaker wants to describe the beauty of his love, but can’t find the words to do so. the speaker says “then in mid-utterance the lay was lost” when he tries to think of the words to describe his love’s beauty.   through his defeat of finding words to describe his love, he shows his love for her.

2.   instead of describing how perfect his love is or comparing her to other beautiful things, he says she is average and there is nothing special about her.   at the last 2 lines of the poem, the volta changes the poem by saying that even though his love is average in beauty, his love for her is special and unique. so instead of praising her throughout the whole poem, he contrasts her average characteristics with his special love for her.

3.   the beloved asked the speaker to describe how he feels about her. she begins to describe what she feels but "drop the torch" and says that she can't do it because the words "hid in me out of reach." the the speaker says "nay, let the silence of my womanhood command my woman-love to thy belief" and that her silence will have to be the answer to his question.