Essay On Prospera And Outback

Similarities and differences of the Outback & Island of Prospera In the movie Walkabout the setting is mostly in the Australian outback. The outback is depicted as a desert, extremely hot, flat for miles then hilly for a little bit, but there is still signs of life. The movie the Tempest takes place on the Island of Prospera the island is dark, gloomy and dry there is some life there but not much. In this paper I will be compare and contrasting the outback in Walkabout with the Island of Prospera in the Tempest. The Outback and the Island of Prospera are different in several ways but they do have some similarities. The major comparison between the Outback and the Island of Prospera is the landscape they are both extremely bare, in the Outback it is the typically the same landscape for miles and …show more content…
That is another difference the Aboriginal and Caliban, Caliban had lived on the island all his life and then Prospera and her daughter started to live on it he was made there slave and he let them. Even though he was there first he allowed them to control him and he learned there language fluently, the Aboriginal did the complete opposite. When the main girl started to talk as if she was superior to him even though he could not understand her he could hear her tone and he started to walk away then when she called to him nicely he came back. The Aboriginal and the brother and sister did not fluently learn each other’s languages but they did learn how to communicate in their own way, through hand motions. He also helped the brother and sister survive teaching them how to get water from the ground and how to hunt for animals. Caliban did not help Prospera he just followed her