The Tempest includes love, hate, royalty, peasantry, and most importantly, betrayal. Betrayal plays a very important role in this play. It portrays all of the hatred and tension between the characters. Betrayal drives characters such as Prospero to gain revenge on those who have turned their back on him, like his brother Antonio.
Betrayal is the violation of one's trust, the breaking of one’s moral standard. Depending on the strength of the relationship, whether it be mutual friends or family, the effect of betrayal will vary. In closer relationships such as the one between Antonio and Prospero, the feeling of betrayal is natural stronger than it would be if they had a more distant or weak relationship with each other. Betrayal is directly …show more content…
As I mentioned before in the intro, Antonio betrayed Prospero to better himself and take Prospero’s place as the “Duke of Milan”. In Act I, Scene ii, Prospero explains why he has set up the storm that had caused the shipwreck, “Being once perfected how to grant suits, how to deny them, who t’ advance, and who to trash for overtopping, new-created the creatures that were mine, I say-or changed ‘em , or else new-formed ‘em-having both the key of officer and office, set all hearts i’ th’ state to what tune pleased his ear, that now he was the ivy which had hid my princely trunk and sucked my verdure out on’t”(517). This all comes down to Antonio taking all that Prospero rightfully owned while also risking the lives of everyone on the …show more content…
Both are represented with Prospero by the end of the play. When Prospero is finally given the chance to gain revenge on his enemies, he starts to feel guilty and decides to forgive him instead while also asking for forgiveness himself. He states this forgiveness speech in the epiloue of the play which states, “Now my charms are all o'erthrown, and what strength I have’s mine own, which is most faint. Now, ’tis true, I must be here confined by you, or sent to Naples. Let me not, since I have my dukedom got and pardoned the deceiver, dwell In this bare island by your spell, but release me from my band with the help of your good hands. Gentle breath of yours my sails must fill, or else my project fails, which was to please. Now I want spirits to enforce, art to enchant, and my ending is despair, unless I be relieved by prayer, which pierces so that it assaults mercy itself and frees all faults. As you from crimes would pardoned be, let your indulgence set me free”(596). This makes it so that the play ends with a sense of love rather than
Betrayal is the violation of one's trust, the breaking of one’s moral standard. Depending on the strength of the relationship, whether it be mutual friends or family, the effect of betrayal will vary. In closer relationships such as the one between Antonio and Prospero, the feeling of betrayal is natural stronger than it would be if they had a more distant or weak relationship with each other. Betrayal is directly …show more content…
As I mentioned before in the intro, Antonio betrayed Prospero to better himself and take Prospero’s place as the “Duke of Milan”. In Act I, Scene ii, Prospero explains why he has set up the storm that had caused the shipwreck, “Being once perfected how to grant suits, how to deny them, who t’ advance, and who to trash for overtopping, new-created the creatures that were mine, I say-or changed ‘em , or else new-formed ‘em-having both the key of officer and office, set all hearts i’ th’ state to what tune pleased his ear, that now he was the ivy which had hid my princely trunk and sucked my verdure out on’t”(517). This all comes down to Antonio taking all that Prospero rightfully owned while also risking the lives of everyone on the …show more content…
Both are represented with Prospero by the end of the play. When Prospero is finally given the chance to gain revenge on his enemies, he starts to feel guilty and decides to forgive him instead while also asking for forgiveness himself. He states this forgiveness speech in the epiloue of the play which states, “Now my charms are all o'erthrown, and what strength I have’s mine own, which is most faint. Now, ’tis true, I must be here confined by you, or sent to Naples. Let me not, since I have my dukedom got and pardoned the deceiver, dwell In this bare island by your spell, but release me from my band with the help of your good hands. Gentle breath of yours my sails must fill, or else my project fails, which was to please. Now I want spirits to enforce, art to enchant, and my ending is despair, unless I be relieved by prayer, which pierces so that it assaults mercy itself and frees all faults. As you from crimes would pardoned be, let your indulgence set me free”(596). This makes it so that the play ends with a sense of love rather than