A Societal Study of William ShakespearesCharacter Pericles, Prince of Tyre in Relationto His Urban Environment

To Shakespeare, the mutual agreements and relationships among the members of society provide the only measure for maintaining the order in this society. This paper concerns the treatment of Shakespeare’s ideas and conceptions of society in his play Pericles, Prince of Tyre. Thus Pericles is portrayed here as a man, with special relation to his people, his court and his family. Shakespeare analyses his main character as Prince of Tyre and also as a human being who feels and acts. In this play, Shakespeare provides both the way and the example of how to build a perfect society through a mutual understanding among all its members, a society in which there is no one individual who is better than the others except through one’s excessive giving of himself and his case about his society and those living in it. Pericles’ personality is the main factor which makes any interpretation of himself and of the other characters in the play an easy one, because all of the others react and respond accordingly. Thus, Shakespeare intends to convince his audience that there is no Ultimately good or bad society. But realistically speaking, there is something which is a combination of both.