Much Ado About Nothing Women Analysis

Introduction
The power of a woman is an inspiring topic that is well recognized across international literature. This is because of the varying influences women continue to generate in societies around the world. The texts, I, Phoolan Devi, an autobiography of India’s bandit queen, Much Ado About Nothing, by William Shakespeare, Provoked… a true story, directed by Jag Mundra and the song, “Frozen”, by Within Temptation, all portray the type of power in women, its cause and influence on others. The characters in these texts are representative of the ‘common’ women from our times today through to the Shakespearian times. These texts associate power as a means of having the ability and equality, to create and maintain an influence, on situations and people. The central characters in these texts all occupy similar characteristics, yet the classification of their power is different because of different circumstances, time period and social level these characters emerge from.
What type(s) of power are
The belief that a woman’s low power is caused by fate and God’s abandonment is the accepted norm in these texts. When unjustly treated, Hero only questions “God” as she feels “beset”. Phoolan, also ends up questioning “why is it my destiny?” when she feels “alone…abandoned by God”, after experiencing rape and unequal treatment by the village men. The barrier women tend to create with the outer world and people strengthens their relationship and dependence in God and spiritual beliefs like fate. This is presumably the reason why fate and God’s abandonment are strongly interrelated to the cause of injustice these women suffer, showing low power. However, in the society today, we tend to see ourselves as the controllers of our own fate through our actions. The silence and fear these women exhibit from the start, in practical sense, should be the cause of their low