Compare And Contrast Ferdinand And The Tempest

For a lot of people, their ultimate goal is to find someone that they share a deep connection with. People strive to find their true love, but how worth it is it? While these two pairs of lovers in question may have found what many crave for not everything came out how they wish it would. One of the couples did get their happily ever after, but the other was left with nothing but death and sadness. What exactly played a role in their different outcomes? Was it maturity? Age? Was it the bond or lack of with a parent? Although birthed from the same mind, these couples faced destinies completely different from the other. The “island dreamers” are Ferdinand and Miranda from Shakespeare’s The Tempest. They are called the “island dreamers” because of the fact that they met on an island and their dreams do not stray from the other. This couple met by chance. Miranda was stranded since the age of three on an island with her father, his servant, and his captive. Then, twelve years later, Ferdinand’s boat got shipwrecked on the same Island, which is the reason behind their chanced meeting. If it was not for the storm that occurred while they sailed they would have never crossed paths which is why their meeting was part of their destiny. Miranda knew
Many people are able to put that term into different perspectives to suit their needs. For the couple in Romeo and Juliet, this term means lovers that were not meant to be. Star-crossed lovers signify the idea of wanting someone but not being able to have them. In this case, it is a pair of teens who against all odds fall in “love” while in the midst of a family feud. Through the course of their relationship, there was death and destruction done to themselves and the people around them. Both Romeo and Juliet lived a nice life with a mother and a father and anything they could ask for yet they are the ones that ended their life. Why is