Gender-Swapping in The Tempest: Female Empowerment

In 2010, Director Julie Taymor reconsider the play of Shakespeare's "The Tempest" and changed its material greatly. Most impressively hero Prospero Prospera (male) sex exchange, her choice to women (Helen Millen plays). His daughter Miranda, his bottom, Ariel and Caliban, and and his brother Antonio - - In this article, we disturb the original storm of politics to explore the impact on all of the changes and Prospero of gender relations Social commentary and competition.

Miranda's character is very attractive with Miranda's "Storm" character "Storm" for two reasons. First of all, it is important to note that Miranda is the only female character that appears in the whole theater. This is the only Shakespeare play with this superior character. As Miranda 's role is very important, this is not just Shakespeare' s luck. The reader helps to display her value as a role, but also helps other ladies live the virtues of Miranda, as well as to compare herself with other women in the world of "Tempest" It is not stinginess and virtue.

Since Queen Elizabeth, the Miranda woman who is in the storm of a Shakespeare woman with a British woman in Elizabethan mortality continues to evolve. As a prelude to interpret the characters of Arashi, especially Miranda, the whole role of Shakespeare must be solved. Female part according to Carolyn Ruth Swift Lenz "take patriarchal order is different form and are drawn so as to change the degree of emphasis through the classical Shakespeare" was introduced (5). In this patriarchal system where women stand,

First, there are some fundamental gender differences in the adaptability of characters in the storm. In the play, Miranda is the only one who knew not only her father, inhumanity spirit Ariel, but also half human, half monster caliban. Crocodile Men: In the mini drama, the only one who knows Miranda is her human father, black slave Ariel, and the transformation of the human of the Caliban. Mini series does not force the audience to use the male form of Ariel and Caliban, it understands and believes that they become easy and non-human characters,. In addition, in the mini drama, Miranda has this relationship with these letters, this drama is visible