Billy Shakes Thinks She's Ugly

Sonnet 130

1. My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
2. Coral is far more red, than her lips red:
3. If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
4. If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
5. I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
6. But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
7. And in some perfumes is there more delight
8. Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
9. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
10. That music hath a far more pleasing sound:
11. I grant I never saw a goddess go,
12. My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
13. And yet by heaven, I think my love as rare,
14. As any she belied with false compare.

In William Shakespeare's Sonnet 130, a man verbalizes his displeasures with his mistress.  He begins by stating the physical attributes with which he finds fault with in the first six lines of the sonnet.  The man finds his mistress's eyes to be dull and ugly, unlike the sun, her lips to be far less beautiful that coral, her breasts to be a muddy-looking color rather than white, her hair to be black and wiry, and her cheeks to be lacking in color.  The man then comments on the mistress's unfavorable odor.  He states in lines seven and eight, how her breath smells terrible in comparison to wonderful perfumes.  Then, in lines nine and ten the speaker comments on his mistress's voice by expressing how he feels that her voice is not as beautiful as music.  The man also compares his mistress to a goddess and says she walks on the ground unlike a goddess.  In the end, he realizes that behind all of the faults he finds in his mistress, he believes that the love he shares with her is truly genuine and she is falsely represented by her unfavorable characteristics.
Sonnet 130 is a fair representation of how many people in today's world operate.  If one is not shallow, then they can look past the imperfections that a person might have and look inside to see who they really are.  I, myself, try to get to know someone for who they really are before I attempt to judge them.  The movie "Shallow Hal" depicts a man who only wants to date women for how the look on the outside rather than on the inside, until someone casts a spell on him.  Once the spell is casted, Hal only sees women for what they are on the inside, which leads to him falling in love with a girl he would not normally fall for.  To judge a person by how the look or what they wear is not fair to them or oneself.  By prejudging a them, one blocks themselves out from getting to know a potentially great person.  One must learn to allow oneself to look past the flaws that everyone has and just accept each person for who they are, just as the man in the sonnet did.