Miranda brought the importance of bloodlines and class structure in The Tempest today in class, and I thought it was interesting that, going off the conversations of Prospero's power over others in the play, part of his ability to match Miranda and Ferdinand together is based on the absence of the king. There's something like a power vacuum because Prospero removes power from those who would normally be in power, and Shakespeare has Ferdinand often lamenting over the "death" of his father, the king, while emphasizing that his father is the king.
*just paraphrasing. :)
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