Representation of servants in the Tempest Tempest is Shakespeare’s last play written in 1610. Prospero is Tempest main protagonist. He is exile to an isolate island after his brother (Antonio) conspires to kill him for the desire of taking his position as a duke of Milan. Prospero manages to escape with his three years old daughter to the island. The play starts after 12 years of Prospero’s living in the Isle. The play is more like a test for Prospero to discover his wickedness and find typical way to adjust them. At the beginning, Prospero has two servants: Ariel, who has an angle power and serves him in fulfilling his magical plan, and Caliban, half human half beast, supports him in fetching wood and water. Later on in the play,
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Before being exile to the Island, he is Duke of Milan. He obtains the rule of authority without taking responsibility of his position. To be the duke, he has to serve king and serve his people as well. But Prosper wants to keep the position while neglecting the accountability of being duke. In that perspective, Prosper is similar to Caliban, who desires to have the land without serving his master. He is Caliban for being careless in his service for his people. Prospero says: “This thing of darkness I / Acknowledge mine” (5.1.278). Marjorie Garber in her Shakespeare After All describes: “what Prospero acknowledge in this phrase is not only responsibility (Caliban is my slave), but also identity (Caliban, the ‘thing of darkness,’ is part of me)” (853). Prospero wants to study white magic to serve people not destroy them. His study makes him more knowledgeable than others. He can see world in the wider perspective. Also his studying makes him wise. In this point, Prospero represents Ariel who can do and see things other cannot. Throughout his studying, he manages to understand the world beyond other characters …show more content…
He is in topical figure of human being. He is in the mediation level between Ariel and Caliban. His place is in the central between two servants. He does not want to give up everything; only be obedient and seek for freedom as Ariel. At the same time he doesn’t want to disobey Prospero as Caliban does. Despite the fact that there is similarity in the position between Ferdinand and Caliban, “each is son of ruler. Each thinks of himself as destined and entitled to be king” (Garber 866), but Ferdinand chooses to be servant, obedient and materialistic. He proclaims: “The very instant that I saw you did / My heart fly to your service, there resides / To make me slave to it, and for your sake / Am I this patient log-man” (3.1.75-78). He gives up his position as a prince and probably king. He accepts to do the duties of Caliban, lower human being, for Prospero so as to win Miranda. Ferdinand obtains the same task as Caliban in fetching wood but in different mood. “Service and bondage are freedom for Ferdinand, as the humble task of carrying logs, so hated by Caliban, becomes useful and even a gratifying job”(Garber 868). Ferdinand remains loyal in his work for his master. When Miranda asks him to take a rest and let her do some work instead, he refuses it and shows his loyalty to the bond he has with her father. “Ferdinand swiftly discovers the essential truth that a certain kind of freedom come only through a certain kind
Before being exile to the Island, he is Duke of Milan. He obtains the rule of authority without taking responsibility of his position. To be the duke, he has to serve king and serve his people as well. But Prosper wants to keep the position while neglecting the accountability of being duke. In that perspective, Prosper is similar to Caliban, who desires to have the land without serving his master. He is Caliban for being careless in his service for his people. Prospero says: “This thing of darkness I / Acknowledge mine” (5.1.278). Marjorie Garber in her Shakespeare After All describes: “what Prospero acknowledge in this phrase is not only responsibility (Caliban is my slave), but also identity (Caliban, the ‘thing of darkness,’ is part of me)” (853). Prospero wants to study white magic to serve people not destroy them. His study makes him more knowledgeable than others. He can see world in the wider perspective. Also his studying makes him wise. In this point, Prospero represents Ariel who can do and see things other cannot. Throughout his studying, he manages to understand the world beyond other characters …show more content…
He is in topical figure of human being. He is in the mediation level between Ariel and Caliban. His place is in the central between two servants. He does not want to give up everything; only be obedient and seek for freedom as Ariel. At the same time he doesn’t want to disobey Prospero as Caliban does. Despite the fact that there is similarity in the position between Ferdinand and Caliban, “each is son of ruler. Each thinks of himself as destined and entitled to be king” (Garber 866), but Ferdinand chooses to be servant, obedient and materialistic. He proclaims: “The very instant that I saw you did / My heart fly to your service, there resides / To make me slave to it, and for your sake / Am I this patient log-man” (3.1.75-78). He gives up his position as a prince and probably king. He accepts to do the duties of Caliban, lower human being, for Prospero so as to win Miranda. Ferdinand obtains the same task as Caliban in fetching wood but in different mood. “Service and bondage are freedom for Ferdinand, as the humble task of carrying logs, so hated by Caliban, becomes useful and even a gratifying job”(Garber 868). Ferdinand remains loyal in his work for his master. When Miranda asks him to take a rest and let her do some work instead, he refuses it and shows his loyalty to the bond he has with her father. “Ferdinand swiftly discovers the essential truth that a certain kind of freedom come only through a certain kind