The strategy of changing the gender of the character is to put the play into a discourse on polity on gender. Dame Helen, who is known for carving out a career playing influential women, the strategy of changing the gender in the film was to fortify female empowerment. The character has been renamed Prospera, who is the the Duchess of Milan and she is expelled by her shrewd brother and she is banished to a distant island with her little daughter. It has been learnt that the director believed that women have always been in the receiving end for being powerful for over many centuries.