In modern society, the relationship between parent and child is constantly evolving. However, parents from different cultures play different roles for their children as they grow up. Spanning a period from Elizabethan England to late 19th-century Ireland, the Fifth Commandment states, “Honor thy father and thy mother,” although, above all, “honor thy father” was the basis of the parent-child relationship. It was a patriarchal society and the daughters of these eras were perhaps the greatest victims of that time: as the famous Scottish reformer John Knox said, "Women in her greatest perfection were created to serve and obey men." Furthermore, in those days men considered women “the weaker sex”, both physically and emotionally. During both periods, men were the leaders and women were their inferiors. Prospero and Miranda, the father and daughter in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest, are an example of a father-daughter relationship in Elizabethan England, however they were slightly different from the norm of their period. Prospero was to become Prospero has complete control of Miranda; he raises her in his image and, like almost all fathers of his time, demands respect. He commands her, “obey and be careful” (Shakespeare 1.2.39) when he tells her the story of how they came to the island. Also like the fathers of this time, Prospero would plan his daughter's future marriage to Ferdinand. Ferdinand is the only man Miranda has ever seen, besides her father and Caliban, so he immediately fascinates her: they fall in love with each other. Prospero also controls the speed at which their relationship proceeds, accusing Ferdinand of only pretending to be the Prince of Naples and forcing him to carry wood; this act only further exemplifies the power and control Prospero has over his people