Explore any two issues that The Tempest raises through a close analysis of the play s
... Conclusion The Tempest is a play full of life-concerning educating issues that Shakespeare conveys and the reader explores through both Shakespeare’s and the reader’s power of language. ... One of the main and common issues met throughout the play is love. Shakespeare’s plays always have love as a theme, thus, its importance is underlined in this way. There are different types of love in the play: love between the brothers (male/male), between the couple (male/female), but not surprisingly, there is no woman love present. The first reason that comes to our minds is time, the domination of male societies; therefore, the play must be concerned more with men than with women. Even in the play, we see the “oppression” of Miranda, “worthily purchased”, when the talk between Ferdinand and Prospero goes about her future, she does not interfere, “she is thine own”; but some may argue because Prospero is her father and has certain ‘rights’. ... In ancient Greece, the love between two males was said to be a “nobler” love, and ‘normal’ love between a male and a female – the baser love. Shakespeare could have this idea in his mind, because otherwise, he could write the same play, but with all females, and one male.