Prospero And Miranda's Relationship In The Tempest By William Shakespeare

"A father's influence in his daughter's life shapes her self-esteem, self-image, confidence and opinions of men." (Elizabeth Weiss McGolerick). For fathers, relationships with daughters can start out as simple as can be. She adores you when she’s little, and you adore her just as much. You spend time together doing the cool things that you both enjoy. You love seeing her grow up, even though you sometimes wish she could stay little forever. Like every parent and their children, there are bound to have many arguments through their life, but they are not life-changing problems, they hardly change the relationship between them. When Shakespeare wrote The Tempest, woman played less important roles in society than man, so we have to keep that in

He does all of this because he wants to assure his daughter understands what he went through, and why he despises his own brother. Prospero also asks many times if Miranda is listening. "Dost thou attend me?" (Line 78) And "Dost thou hear?" (Line 106.) He’s doing this just to make sure Miranda understands every single word he’s saying. This use of repetition once again portrays Prospero's control over Miranda and that he is almost obsessive with the past events. Miranda is obviously very close to her father, because when he tells Miranda about being tricked by his brother Antonio, this immediately provokes disappointment and hatred in Miranda. If she wasn’t so close to her father, and did not love him as much then she shouldn’t have being so moved by what she heard. When telling this story, Prospero is very forceful and dominant, ordering her to sit down and listen. In some parts, Shakespeare writes in the third person, almost as if someone was telling Miranda about her father, as if it were her story. In some ways, this makes it easier to make her and us to understand the whole story "Thy father was the Duke of Milan and a prince of

Prospero just wants their love to be preserved. Prospero then wants to spirits to give the happy couple a blessing. Prospero says: "Well! - Now come, my Ariel; bring a corollary Rather than want a spirit. Appear, and pertly. No tongue, all eyes, be silent." This is a lovely idea that Prospero has come up with, to please his daughter and her fiancé. We can see that Prospero is just trying to do the best for his child, and to make her happy, as there is a "contract of true love to celebrate." From all of this we can see that Prospero is just another typical father except for the fact that he uses magic. Of course, they have arguments, as all parents with their children do, but even if he did come across to the audience a being quite a harsh character to his daughter, it was really, only for her own good. I think that all Prospero actually wanted was true love for her, and to protect and care for her in every way