Essay On Femininity In The Tempest

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The defeating process of male dominant desire for the femininity The author Shakespeare analyses the overcoming process of male ruling desire for the femininity in The Tempest. In the early modern period, colonization was the significant issues, especially in England and other imperialistic nations. They have been watching over the new world, in order to govern and control it as under their supervision. During the process of colonization, a colony and colonized people, especially women consider to be less important. The colonizers have no fear to feminine subversive power; even desire to maintain their male dominance over them. As the result, Colonialists civilizes the natives by taking advantage of a colony under the misrepresentation of enlightening. …show more content…

Despite the fact that Miranda is an assistant to her father in order to accomplish the restoration of Milan, she resists and subordinates her imperativeness in opposition to the patriarchal supremacy. According to Prospero, he purposely hands over his daughter Miranda to Ferdinand as a gift, which is typical behavior of patriarchal supremacy. However Miranda does not allow herself to have Ferdinand that is certainly against her father intended to choose him as a husband. Even though she is both a reason and a purpose of Prospero's colonial plan, but that is not a problem for her in order to keep her position over male ruling society. Miranda is definitely representative feminine characters in The Tempest, says the following: “At mine unworthiness that dare not offer what I desire to give and much less take what I shall die to want But his is trifling, and all the more it seeks to hide itself, The bigger bulk it shows. Hence, bashful cunning, and prompt me, plain and holy innocence. I am your wife if you will marry me. If not, I’ll die your maid. To be your fellow you may deny me, but I’ll be your servant whether you will or no” (Shakespeare, Act3.

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