Representation Of Miranda's Character

Miranda 's character is used to represent the reflection of Elizabethan ideal women society. Miranda’s character is referred to as a goddess and is characterized as beautiful, naive and innocent, and virgin; such kind of characteristic can be seen in Ferdinand’s comment

“Oh, if a virgin,

And your affection not gone forth, I 'll make you

The Queen of Naples”(1.2.35)

Associating other female characters of the play, Miranda 's character is made more desirable. Compliance and humility later embodies the ideal woman, as it is shown in Sebastian 's indication to the daughter of the King, Claribel, Alonso “weigh’d between loathness and obedience”(2.1.49). Miranda is both compliant and submissive, which is shown with her actions against her father:

“Here cease more questions: Thou art inclined to sleep […] I know thou canst not choose”(1.2.18)

In Prospero’s words Miranda 's mother “was a piece of virtue”(1.2.10), as follows, it demonstrates women being virtuous. However, Caliban 's mother Sycorax, is being used in opposition with Miranda 's character to enhance the representation of Miranda as the ideal woman. Sycorax is nothing as the stereotype of ideal women, being a “blue-eyed hag was hither brought with child”(1.2.24). She later imposes the

In William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Prospero’d and Sycorax’s relationship is on the extreme ends of power and gender. Prospero’s patriarchy imposes not an independent or consistent system; it rather reacts to its opposition, which is the symbol of Sycorax. Although when some could exempt Sycorax as “long dead by the time the play’s events take place” (Thompson 339), she still symbolizes the power of feminine. While other characters can be characterized by directly reading the play, Sycorax can only be analyzed by her influence on these characters. With Sycorax absent, Prospero envisions her as his female opposite. Through Prospero’s vision, Sycorax symbolizes everything that may have caused questions of his