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Ferdinand
Miranda’s love interest, prince

Globe Theatre
tempest

Hybrid
Tempest, comedy, romance, tragedy

Sycorax
Caliban’s mom, witch on the island first

Setebos
Worshipped by sycorax

Caliban
Monster, island inhabitant, servant

The Great Chain of Being
God, Angel, Human, or Monarch, nobles, commoners

Prospero
Tempest, magic

Miranda
Tempest, prospero’s daughter

Tabula Rasa
Blank slate, new world

White man’s burden
Rudyard Kipling, white man must reign over other races

Treaty of Tordesillas
1494, divides the word between Portugal and Spain