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The Winter's Tale

Introduction

Towards the last part of William Shakespeare's life, the plays of Shakespeare Started to entertain a topic that was very different from his earlier works. Since Shakespeare is popularly known for his capability to capture the dynamics of human nature. His works have remained relevant because of how well he is able to portray the aspects of human life that never change over time, such as love, family, and human emotions. Much of his earlier work explored the consequences of certain human actions by using the storytelling technique of tragedy. Towards the end of his life he began to enlist a technique of storytelling known as the tragicomedy. These stories contained all the elements of tragedy, including death, but continued past the tragic consequences of human frailty to explore the redemption achieved through repenting of the mistakes and behaviors that produced the tragedies that took place earlier in the play. These plays of redemption are unique for their happy endings. Although all of Shakespeare's plays are layered with imagery, his later tragicomedies tend to have some very strong religious undertones attached to the redemption concept he began exploring through them. One of his last plays, The Winter's Tale, is a great example of how Shakespeare used his gift for imagery to enrich his stories with deeper, almost hidden meanings.

Throughout The Winter's Tale Shakespeare uses the imagery of lambs to lead his audience to a deeper understanding of the story he is telling. One of the first examples of this use is found in Polixene's conversation with Leontes about their childhood friendship. “We were as twinn'd lambs that did frisk i' the sun, and bleat the one at the other: what we changed was innocence for innocence; we knew not the doctrine of ill-doing, nor dream'd that any did. Had we pursued that life, and our weak spirits ne'er been higher rear'd with stronger blood, we should have answer'd heaven boldly 'not guilty;' the imposition clear'd hereditary ours”.

Answer 1: The moral effect of Hermiones's apparent returns

Shakespeare had given a great place to the character of Hermione in the winter tale. In the act 1 it was seen that she was not given that much value and honor like she deserved to be given. But this is the first time in the novels of Shakespeare that he gives second chance to the character of Hermione and it first she was not valued by her husband Leontes at all, and in the Act I because of his jealousy he blamed his wife with being to frank with his old friend Polixenes who was the King of Bohemia. And everything was ruined because of the jealousy that was created in Leontes. He was never able to consider the fact that she was great lady with eloquence and grace, which she always hid under self when ever her husband. And after that specific event that evening he imprisoned his wife forever but Hermione never questioned his decisions but ...