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The Most Powerful Shakespeare Female Characters
This article discusses the most powerful Shakespeare female characters across all of his plays. Social and political power was entirely in the hands of the men in Elizabethan England and particularly, well-born men.
This study aims to examine the four sublime states of mind or Brahma-viharas described by the characters in The Tempest from a Buddhist.
Both women and men in the lower classes were powerless but women in the upper classes were in a particularly unenviable position as their value was generally reckoned to be a rich or powerful man’s path to more riches or more power: daughters were considered to be possessions and were passed from father to husband to forge alliances between the rich and powerful.
The father had the sole right to make the decision about his daughter’s marriage. Once she was married her function was to produce an heir, and daughters who could be used for the family’s further advancement.
One cannot, therefore, talk about Shakespeare’s powerful women in the social or political sense, but there are a number of very powerful women in S