The Tempest Injustice

After reading “The Tempest” by William Shakespeare, I have learned that one of the themes of this story is justice. Prospero tries to seek justice by reclaiming the position of the Duke of Milan from his brother Antonio. One way of seeing this is that Prospero’s ideas of both justice and injustice are hypocritical, as he sees Antonio removal of him as immoral, he still enslaves Caliban and Ariel to accomplish his tasks he has given them. In my opinion, Prospero wants justice from what is brother did do him, but the methods he uses to achieve this justice are morally wrong, such as enslaving and using them to benefit only him.
Another theme that is used is the distinction between “Men” and Monsters. When seeing Ferdinand for the first time Prospero considers him as a human, but with Caliban he considers to be a monster calling him “devil, a born, on whose nature/Nurture can never stick”, because he attempted to rape Miranda. For this he enslaves Caliban and punishes for trying to violate his daughter. Prospero gave Caliban “human care” but implied that he did not deserve it. Before Miranda had reminded Caliban that before she taught him language he had spoked “like / A thing more brutish”. In …show more content…
After Ariel was released from the imprisonment of Sycorax by Prospero’s, “he” becomes the servant of Prospero until he fulfills his tasks. Ariel obeys the tasks that “he” is given by Prospero, so that when he accomplishes the tasks “he” would be freed from being Prospero’s servant. The other servant Caliban had taught Prospero’s on how to survive the island he and his daughter were banished to, but all of that changed when Caliban tried to rape Miranda. Caliban was punished by Prospero by being enslaved and punished with stomach cramps. The one difference I see between the two servants is that Prospero has a loving relationship with Ariel as with Caliban it is more of wrath towards