In the introduction, Cavendish relates to the reader a reason for her fiction. Human nature, always full of desires and ambitions, has these desires equally opposed to by a force that often overcomes, reality. Cavendish writes,

"but as ambitious as ever any of my sex was, is, or can be; which makes, that though I cannot be Henry the Fifth, or Charles the Second, yet I endeavor to be Margaret the First; and although I have neither power, time nor occasion to conquer the world as Alexander and Caesar did; yet rather than not to be mistress of one, since Fortune and the Fates would give me none,

Knowing full the limitations upon her, Cavendish seeks satisfaction for her ambition in her only escape, the imagination. Not desiring just happiness or meager comfort, she wants the world, and everything in it to conform to her will. The essence of her aspirations she summarizes when she is talking to the spirits about her desire for a world of her own; "for I had rather die in the adventure of noble achievements, than live in obscure and sluggish security;" (BW, 185)

History is littered with philosophers who have pondered reality. Everyone at some point in their life comes across the ageless questions that plague our existence. Questions that can't always be answered but at the same time demand attention. Questions like "What is real?" and "What is truth?" When Cavendish encountered these questions, she was left unsatisfied by the answers reality around her tried to provide, which led her to create the answers that satisfied her in her head. She asks if anyone can blame her for her endeavor in the int

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