Winter’s Tale Ends (further continued)

This concluding scene holds great dramatic and thematic significance as the first part of the scene was covered in heightened drama to prepare the audience of the arrival of Hermione after sixteen long years; however towards the end Shakespeare doesn’t seem to give the episode a proper closure. Also, in the end the reader is given the impression of a patriarchal effect as it is Leontes who eventually decides the fate of all the women, for instance he tells not asks Paulina to be with Camillo. This highlights the gender difference during the Elizabethan era.

Therefore this episode was able to address the main and final issue of the Oracle of Apollo that is the life of Hermione.