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The Tempest
One of the most controversial aspects of The Tempest is Prospero's unpleasant treatment of Caliban. Generations of literary scholars and critics have seen it as a symbol of colonial exploitation....
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The Tempest
The conflicts over power that are shown throughout The Tempest are frequently influenced by the colonial context of the island. Upon arrival, Prospero claimed rulership of the island and enslaved...
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The Tempest
William Shakespeare’s play The Tempest is set on a small, largely undeveloped island, so the setting is rather austere. The core of the play is the interactions among the characters, who are...
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The Tempest
Although it is difficult to know any author's exact motives in writing, Shakespeare's purpose in writing The Tempest, beyond entertaining an audience, may have been to show the value of mercy and...
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The Tempest
The Tempest is very thematically layered; magic, freedom, identity, culture, friendship, oppression, and power are all themes within this play. Language is a key tool Shakespeare uses to illustrate...
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The Tempest is generally thought to be Shakespeare's most metatheatrical play in that it shows its protagonist as a creator, a dramatist like Shakespeare himself. In his capacity as magician...
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Prospero certainly loves his daughter Miranda, but their relationship is an unequal one. His use of language and magic indicates that he holds the power. At Miranda’s first appearance, she wishes...
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When Miranda meets Ferdinand for the first time, it's love at first sight. Miranda has never seen such a handsome, dashing man before. But then again she's never clapped eyes on any man other than...
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On the whole, because they are good people, Ferdinand and Miranda are likely to be good rulers. Shakespeare firmly believed that morally good, honest, and merciful people made the best monarchs....
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That's a very good question. In terms of suffering most I'd say Caliban. That's because he has to live with the daily humiliation of being Prospero's slave on his own island. Unlike Prospero,...
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Although Prospero has traditionally been seen as a European who tried to help the "monster" Caliban become more civilized, in recent decades their relationship has been understood as that of the...
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The Tempest
The function of the relationship between Miranda and Ferdinand in this play seems to serve a number of different functions. On the one hand, Ferdinand's union with Miranda is something that is...
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Trinculo is one of many comic characters in Shakespeare, a jester who, along with the drunken servant Stephano, provides a foil to the pairings of Prospero and Alonso and Antonio and Sebastian....
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The Tempest
Music and noise are important to The Tempest. Noise often raises the fear of discord or disaster, as do the loud noises that suggest the ship is likely to be destroyed by the tempest that arises in...
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It's act 1, scene 2 of The Tempest, and the lively little sprite Ariel is singing a song. On Propsero's orders Ariel safely led the ship containing Ferdinand, his father Alonso, and the other...
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The epilogue is an interesting feature of The Tempest because it offers some insights into Prospero’s character and commentary on the actor–audience relationship. Throughout the course of the play,...
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As many critics have noted, in the passage this quote comes from, Caliban is summarizing all of colonialism—from the point of view of the colonized. Caliban says that when Prospero first appeared...
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An important strand of Romanticism is the supernatural, and we see this strongly influence the action on Prospero's island. Magic, in fact, is integral to getting the plot moving. The sprite,...
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The Tempest is a very famous play written by William Shakespeare. In act 3, scene 3, Antonio and Sebastian are still contemplating killing Alonso. Alonso is increasingly growing exhausted, which is...
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When Caliban meets the two shipwrecked men, he is in bad mood and feeling more resentful than usual of Prospero, who sends spirits to bother him. The scene begins with Caliban lugging firewood and...
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In this scene, Gonzalo notes the loveliness of the island they are shipwrecked on and states that it provides everything they need to live. He says that if he were in charge of it, he would do...
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In act 3, scene 2 of The Tempest, Caliban literally throws himself at Stephano's feet, asking if he can be allowed to lick his shoe. The arrival of Stephano, Trinculo, and the others on Prospero's...
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In The Tempest, Prospero’s power is primarily based in the intertwined realms of magic and knowledge. He does not hesitate to use his magic to achieve his own ends and, in doing so, inflicts...
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Prospero begins to realize that he has brought much of his grief on himself. Upon arriving on the island, he makes slaves of Ariel and Caliban, has Ariel create a storm in order to shipwreck his...
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The Tempest
One of the main themes in "The Tempest" is the consequences of the uses and abuses of power. Prospero has accumulated and lost a great deal of power in his life. For this reason, and because his...
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The Tempest
At the opening of Shakespeare's The Tempest, a resentful, vengeful, and vindictive Prospero causes a tremendous storm that wrecks the ship on which his brother, Antonio, and others who participated...
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Antonio and Sebastian are two of the ship’s passengers who wash ashore on the island where Prospero, the magician, and his daughter, Miranda, live. Antonio is Prospero’s brother; he became the Duke...
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Caliban despises Prospero. As far as Caliban is concerned, Prospero is a cruel master who torments and abuses him. When we first meet Caliban, he curses Prospero and hopes for "wicked dew" to...
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Prospero has been badly wronged. His brother Antonio stole his kingdom with the help of Alonso, the king of Naples. Antonio also arranged for Prospero to be set out to sea with his young daughter...
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Caliban meets Stephano and Trinculo in act 2, scene 2. He is fetching wood for Prospero, and while he carries the wood, he curses Prospero. He wishes for all of "the infections that the sun sucks...
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Savage and civilized are words that are often used when discussing what began as Hegel's self/other concept. He posed the idea that we separate ourselves into two groups, the Self, the known, the...
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In Act Three (not Two), Prospero treats Ferdinand like a slave. There are several reasons for this. He is still angry over the loss of his kingdom, and Ferdinand is linked to that. He (Prospero) is...
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The Tempest
When Prospero and his daughter, Miranda, first come ashore on their remote island in Shakespeare's The Tempest, the only inhabitants of the island are a spirit, Ariel, and Caliban, whom Prospero...
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Prospero uses his magic to control Ariel and Caliban. He does this to do several things. First, he uses it to establish a kind of hierarchy on the island, with him on top, and the enslaved spirit...
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It's act 3, scene 3, and Alonso has become utterly exhausted while looking for his son, Fernando. Weary in body, mind, and soul, Alonso has pretty much given up hope of ever finding him. All that...
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In The Tempest, Shakespeare makes two references to Neptune, the Roman god of the sea. In act 1, scene 2, Ariel describes to Prospero how he followed Prospero's orders to the letter, raised a...
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The benefits of exile for Prospero are clear from Miranda's description of his magic art at the beginning of Act I scene 2. Prospero has had all the time in the world to focus his efforts and...
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In act 2 scene 1 of The Tempest, when Alonso and his retinue become shipwrecked on Prospero’s island, Gonzalo, the king’s loyal counselor, tries to see things optimistically. He reminds the king...
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In William Shakespeare's The Tempest, Gonzalo is one of the few passengers on the tempest-tossed ship that hasn't in some way offended Prospero. As the play opens, Gonzalo is an advisor to King...
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At the opening of act 5 of William's Shakespeare's The Tempest, Prospero tells Ariel to release Prospero's prisoners and bring them to him. Prospero says that he'll remove all magic spells from...
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This particular question refers to a theme embedded and recurring throughout The Tempest, which is manifested in several different contexts (which vary in presentation from the sinister to the...
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Prospero has long wished to wreak vengeance on Alonso, Antonio, and the others who conspired to depose him from the throne. When Ariel reports that the men are trapped terrified in the grove,...
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This is a complicated assignment as there doesn't seem to be an overarching rationale for choosing these two works for comparison. There are, however, a few areas it might be possible to explore....
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In terms of themes, there are a number of options. You might, for example, compare how each text explores the theme of love. Gatsby's love for Daisy is arguably a positive influence on his life...
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This scene, which features the main courtship of Ferdinand and Miranda, raises many interesting issues that are central to the play as a whole. One of the crucial things it is important to remember...
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William Shakespeare ties up the main plot lines by the end of the play. The main line is the restoration of Prospero's dukedom in Milan over his brother, Antonio, who had usurped his rule. He...
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The Tempest
In act 1, scene 2 of William Shakespeare's The Tempest, Prospero explains to his daughter, Miranda, how they came to be on the island which is the setting for the play. Prospero tells Miranda that...
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The title of The Tempest has both literal and metaphorical significance. Literally, it refers to the storm, or tempest, whipped up by Prospero's magic to shipwreck the King of Naples and his crew....
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At the beginning of act 1, scene 2, Miranda says to her father, Prospero, "If by your art, my dearest father, you have / Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them." These lines introduce the...
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Caliban is very subservient to Stephano. In fact, he's so unctuous towards him that he actually bows down to him and calls him a god. Old habits die hard, and Caliban's years of bowing and scraping...
