A comparative study of Shakespeare’s play, The Tempest and Yojiro Takita’s foreign film, Departures effectively highlights an individual’s ability to explore results in lasting impacts on their perspectives of the world and themselves. Both composers incorporate the vital idea that characters’ discoveries subsequently reflect integral actions of change. The Tempest sets the progressive drama of rediscovering the past through characters such as Miranda and her delayed knowledge of her history and humans resulting in new afflictions with love and confrontation. Subversively, in Departures, Takita manipulates Daigo as a vehicle to convey the desperate actions towards human shortcomings resulting in his emotional journey of acceptance of morality.
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He utilises Miranda as a vehicle to explore the extents of which discoveries can result in appreciation for the world and its natural creation as seen in her forgiveness statement, “oh, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is!” The continuous use of exclamation emphasises the truthful art of excitement Miranda feels towards humans, highlighting further speculation thus offering new knowledge of the world and reciprocal feelings of familiarity to the human kind. Audiences are positioned to view Miranda’s perceptions with encouragement and wonder whilst ironically taking note of her naivety. Furthermore Miranda’s wonder towards humanity subsequently results in the discovery of love, which are explicitly shown in the polyptoton “If you sit down, I’ll bear your logs for a while.” Shakespeare’s employment of polyptoton enhances the dramatical implications of Miranda’s plea, calling out to Ferdinand to carry his burdens and let him rest. Such actions demonstrate the extents of which love can result in radical actions showing the unexplainable aspects of the world and the new sensations of Miranda. Audiences are awed at the conflict with social and cultural values by which Miranda offers to carry Ferdinand’s wood- actions unseen of women and as a result, be wary of love’s influences. Such radical actions symbolise the substantial effects of admiration and love and its ever-lasting influences in
He utilises Miranda as a vehicle to explore the extents of which discoveries can result in appreciation for the world and its natural creation as seen in her forgiveness statement, “oh, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is!” The continuous use of exclamation emphasises the truthful art of excitement Miranda feels towards humans, highlighting further speculation thus offering new knowledge of the world and reciprocal feelings of familiarity to the human kind. Audiences are positioned to view Miranda’s perceptions with encouragement and wonder whilst ironically taking note of her naivety. Furthermore Miranda’s wonder towards humanity subsequently results in the discovery of love, which are explicitly shown in the polyptoton “If you sit down, I’ll bear your logs for a while.” Shakespeare’s employment of polyptoton enhances the dramatical implications of Miranda’s plea, calling out to Ferdinand to carry his burdens and let him rest. Such actions demonstrate the extents of which love can result in radical actions showing the unexplainable aspects of the world and the new sensations of Miranda. Audiences are awed at the conflict with social and cultural values by which Miranda offers to carry Ferdinand’s wood- actions unseen of women and as a result, be wary of love’s influences. Such radical actions symbolise the substantial effects of admiration and love and its ever-lasting influences in