Julie Taymore´s Film Interpretation of The Tempest by...

â€Å"My View of The Tempest† William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, one of Shakespeare’s final plays and debat-ably his final play ever written, focused on man’s gluttonous desire for power. Power manifests itself in â€Å"The Tempest† in many different ways, including the exploration of the power of betrayal, the universal desire for power between men. The power of a mas-ter over his slave, and the power of magic and illusion. Although this is clear, many in-terpretations over time have changed regarding the theme of power, which has resulted in questions as to whether power in the play is represented as good or bad. Shakespeare pre-sents these forms of power in different ways. Namely, through his character Prospero, who was once the duke of Milan†¦show more content†¦But looking at Shakespeare work females did play both supporting and central characters. Is this answer the question that Shakespeare might have considered the idea that Julie Taymore used for her interpre-tation o f â€Å"The Tempest† I think that the switch of roles from the original play in the mov-ie makes a big difference in my view. Reading the original piece I get the imagination of every character other then Miranda and Aerial being a self-center manipulative mescaline male egger for power or control of another. Looking back at the Renaissance era you wouldn’t find any female in power or playing a major role in society that for me was one of the reasons why I couldn’t picture the switch of Prospero to Prospera. You look at the battle for power throughout the whole play and Prospero being Prospera a woman takes away from what I think Shakespeare intended to make a strong masculine. The changing of gender made a big difference to me view. The plot of the play and what the characters all wanted was power, which is more of a masculine idea. One thing I’d like to make clear before I get into reasons of why the changing of roles made a difference to me, my views s hould not be proceeded as a sexist but jus the idea that Prospero seemed more strong to me in the as a male then Prospera the female and will state my reasons why. Reading