... period and a strong female lead character was somewhat a myth. Centralizing the plot line on a woman's power and control is breaking through society walls of expectations provided by the culture. In William Shakespeare's, "The Tempest ", the only female presence in the play is Miranda, who is merely used a tool in Prospero's machine and as a flimsy love interest for Ferdinand. The lack of women in the play is already fitting to the time period Shakespeare created this ... small. She is a threat and that helps her be able to have the potential to grow into a more prominent and important ...

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... keep it, as Shakespeare would want the play to be. Prospero was my favorite character and the final scene shows that he is forgiving and never uses magic and power to directly harm anyone even though there are plenty of people that want his power. --- Although some scholars have speculated that Shakespeare wrote portions of The Tempest at an earlier stage in his career, most literary historians ... assign the entire play a composition date of 1610 ... ...

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... not her father; she is restricted to her virginity and this confinement is not her choice. 
Given that there is little character development, it seems that, as the only woman present in the play, "she is crucial for the action of the play and yet she is 'deprived of any possibility of human freedom, growth or thought. She need only be chaste &ndash ... herself ! Hermia's strength and resilience, her need to maintain protocol and propriety even in the forest, can be seen as novelty to the Elizabethan audience. Her decorum and appropriateness, combined with her defiance, adds layers of ...

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