Tempest

How was Prospero a Renaissance ruler? Based on Prospero's leadership traits, Shakespeare presents him as the ideal Renaissance ruler. He values learning as do most Renaissance rulers, stating that his library was dukedom enough. Also, like many Renaissance rulers Prospero was very smart and clever while he was in his dukedom in Milan. As with all Renaissance rulers, Prospero uses violence and the threat of violence to control his subjects, his subjects being Ariel and …

…good Renaissance rulers did. He strived on learning and was smart and clever. Not only that but he was a magician and practiced magic. Also he was very successful with his magic too. With his subjects he showed great power by using violence. But he did not seem cruel to them or his people it was just how he kept them in line. Prospero all in all was a ideal Renaissance ruler of his time.