... , or feminists, can interpret the play however as a depiction of the sexist treatment of women, and would disagree with the characteristics and expectations that make Miranda the ideal woman. From such a perspective, The Tempest can be furthermore used to compare and contrast the social expectations, and the treatment of women within the 16th and 17th Centuries to those of today. Miranda's character is used to represent the ideal woman of Elizabethan ... the representation of the inferiority of women, as opposed to the usual interpretation of the differences between the two genders. As a...

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