read shakespeare's "sonnet 130.”my mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; coral is far more red, than her lips red: if snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; if hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. i have seen roses damask'd, red and white, but no such roses see i in her cheeks; and in some perfumes is there more delightthan in the breath that from my mistress reeks. i love to hear her speak, yet well i knowthat music hath a far more pleasing sound: i grant i never saw a goddess go,—my mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:       and yet by heaven, i think my love as rare,      as any she belied with false compare.what is the central idea of the first quatrain? my mistress is unattractive. my mistress is beautiful. my mistress has a natural beauty. my mistress is not a perfect beauty.

The answer is: My mistress is not a perfect beauty.

Shakespeare's "Sonnet 130" is a parody of traditional sonnets at the time, in which poets compared their lovers to beautiful things like diamonds, fine pearls, flowers or goddesses. In the first four lines, Shakespeare expresses his lover does not possess a conventional beauty: her eyes are not like the sun, her lips are not red, her breasts are brownish or yellowish, and her hair looks like wires.

in this passage from chapter 6 of "animal farm", by george orwell, what the author is ridiculing in this passage is the frivolity of some rules.

clover, the mare, believes she remembers that the fourth commandment forbade sleeping in beds because it was something that humans did. snowball, napoleon, and the pigs are brain-workers who look after the welfare of the farm. they are the obvious leaders because they are smart, and so they are entitled to eat the best food and sleep in beds. it is squealer, who says these lines making the difference between sleeping with sheets, what humans do, and sleeping in beds, what pigs do. the unwillingness to question authority makes the oppressed to obey without thinking.