Leontes

suffers the repercussions of her father’s jealousy, as she becomes lost in a world she knows nothing about right out of the womb. Evidently, Perdita is actually Leontes’ and Hermione’s daughter. However, after Leontes’ finds out his “unfaithful” wife is pregnant, his first assumption is that the baby is King Polixenes. Because of this, Leontes calls the baby a bastard and refuses to claim Perdita as his own, but goes to the great extent in ordering Antigonus, a shepherd, to drop her in the wilderness

in The Winter’s Tale by providing evidence to the contrary. His female characters are able to gain power using different techniques according to their situations. However, these methods vary greatly between the court of the shepherd in Bohemia and Leontes’ court in Sicilia. While women in the royal court gain influence through their use of effective rhetoric, Shakespeare describes that Perdita’s power in the shepherd’s court stems mostly from her beauty. From this juxtaposition, Shakespeare claims

the men in power, or authority, treated the ‘fairer sex’: their wives, daughters, and women in general. In this essay, elements examined will surround King Leontes and his relationships, such as with his old friend King Polixenes of Bohemia, his young son Mamillius, and finally with the women in his life, Queen Hermione, and Lady Paulina. Leontes is not only head of his household; he is also King of Sicilia, thus head of all households in the country, an incredibly pressurised

accusation, death, repentance and reunion. To successfully study how Shakespeare presents relationships between men and women in The Winter's Tale there are four main relationships to examine - Hermione and Leontes, Paulina and Antigonus, Perdita and Florizel, and Leontes and Paulina. Shakespeare's view of women, and generally the Elizabethan view, suggested that women had less capability for evil - can

either fronts of this question because Shakespeare uses many mystical elements that play into the very question itself. Hermione, wife of Leontes King of Sicily, is accused by her beloved husband of adultery at the beginning of the play. Leontes is distraught and will not listen to anyone about the innocence of his wife. He orders his

all these things characterize strength, and two women in William Shakespeare’s play, The Winter’s Tale, exhibit many of these attributes, begging the question: which woman was stronger? The Winter’s Tale dramatizes the troubling situation of King Leontes and his wife Hermione, whom he has falsely accused of adultery. Throughout the play, the queen Hermione, and Hermione’s close friend Paulina, face peril, loss, and moral crossroads; yet each bears her trial with upstanding character. Many admire Hermione

Hermione is in fact dead, but still want Leontes to go forth and see for himself. Strange considering that before this point Paulina had changed her views towards the tyrant king. Paulina no longer respected her king as before, for he had gone blind with rage. Leontes up and till this point had discredited his queen, already he had forgotten how to bring out the luster or breath in her. All he saw was an adulterous, somebody guilty of high treason. Death changed Leontes, for he no longer sought revenge nor

When interpreted from a feministic perspective, it is apparent that the story of King Lear and The Winter’s Tale contains misogynistic implications. While the three sisters in King Lear were fallen victims to the misogynistic societal needs, Hermoine in The Winter’s Tale also suffered from temptress accusations. The ingratitude that the women endured from male authorities who viewed women stereotypically, claims how both plays challenged gender roles and suggested that women were wicked, sexually

end. In particular, the most dynamic character in the play is King Leontes of Sicilia. In the beginning, Leontes believes in the self-assumed belief that his wife, Queen Hermione, is having affairs with his childhood friend, King Polixenes of Bohemia. This belief was conspired by Leontes when he requested Hermione to convince Polixenes to prolong his visit in Sicilia after he himself had failed. When she did succeed, Leontes became “diseased” with jealousy and came to the assumption that Hermione

determination to prove this actually changes this search from one for truth to one for myths—creations, false truths. In essence. Leontes runs into the conflict of defining art versus nature, where art is the view of the world he constructs to prove his paranoia true. Nature itself can exist without art, but the art here is the mangled perception through which Leontes will seek to define Nature. In summation, “The Winter’s Tale” investigates the conflict between art and nature—creation versus enhancement—and