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Parenting is a main element of “The Winters Tale”. Discuss the contrast between Leontes, Hermione, Polixenes, the shepherd and the clown as parents.
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Parenting is a main element of "The Winters Tale". Discuss the contrast between Leontes, Hermione, Polixenes, the shepherd and the clown as parents. As parents Leontes and Hermione have very different qualities as parents. Hermione is a strong character within the play and this quality helps to make her a strong and good mother. Leontes however has very different qualities. His jealousy and mistrust of his best friend Polixenes and his wife Hermione, along with his severe paranoia, make Leontes a poor parent. It is this attitude that makes him a poor parent. He mistrusts his own wife and this has a detrimental effect on them as a unit. However Leontes begins to redeem himself as the play progresses. In contrast to this couple the shepherd and the clown are extremely good parents. Even though these two are the same sex and much less well off than Leontes and Hermione they...
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