Moons of Uranus

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 play The Tempest written by the famous William Shakespeare is one of his most controversial and interpreted plays. For many years’ professionals have been dissecting the play and trying to found the moral meaning, along with interpreting what the characters are saying. The play is about a king named Prospero who has a daughter named Miranda and they have been living on an isolated island close to thirteen years. Prospero had arranged a marriage for his daughter with a man named Ferdinand,…

The Tempest, a play by William Shakespeare, is the story the revenge-obsessed man named Prospero, who seeks vengeance on his brother and the coconspirators who took his dukedom and tried to murder him and his daughter, Miranda. Shakespeare uses illuminating incidents in his play to point out changes in the characters. During the story, Prospero has an illuminating incident that changes how he is as a person. The casement provided by the epiphany showcases the meaning of the play through…

The loyalties of Celia Bowen, main protagonist of The Night Circus, shift throughout her life, extending her feelings of protectiveness from strictly herself to incorporate the lives of both the members of the Night Circus and Marco, her competitor. Throughout her life, Prospero, Celia’s father, forces her to play different roles. As a child, she was often clothed in ribbons and lace in order to complement Prospero’s image. When she spent a few years pretending to be a medium, Celia dressed in…

The definition of moral character rests on an individual’s sense of morality: the principles of right and wrong behavior, and the goodness or badness of human character. Political authority is reflected in individuals who are able to attain their power in a fair and reasonable way, and use this power in order to rule for what they believe is right for the general good. Therefore, one cannot be seen as a legitimate political authority without displaying a highly moral character. In Shakespeare’s…

Shakespeare’s comedy As You Like It follows members of an exiled court as they flee to safety in the Forest of Arden. The characters experience an open and free space, very unlike the confines and corruption that accompanies court life. Jean E. Howard describes the importance of their refuge in the forest in “As You Like It”: “The play thus participates in the rich tradition of Renaissance pastoral literature in which the rustic world of forest and field offer an alternative to and a sanctuary…

Prospero in the beginning of The Tempest is the least favorite character in the play to most readers as he is the protagonist. His knowledge gets him quite far, but it also causes readers the struggle of disliking him because of his very controlling nature and his belief that he is better than everyone else. Prospero controls others through his magic, manipulation and with his speeches. In a speech delivered to Miranda he yells, “obey and be attentive” (1.1. 38) when he feels that she is not…

Author Aime Cesaire incorporates the same characters from Shakespeare 's final play The Tempest in his own play Une Tempete. Cesaire’s Tempest is a colonial reply to The Tempest. Aime Cesaire is trying to show the tension in relationships between Prospero and other characters that may not have been obvious in The Tempest. In Shakespeare 's and Cesaire’s plays, Prospero unfairly tries to abuse and manipulate other characters, Miranda by using his magic on her to make her fall in love with the…

The Themes of Power and Ownership in the Tempest Ownership is a dominant and ever present theme in the Tempest; almost every character in the play is involved with the theme of ownership in the play. They are either the more dominant, or the one who is dominated in the relationship. Ownership is present right from the beginning of the play, as we see that Prospero creates a storm to shipwreck Gonzalo and his men, this immediately shows us that Prospero is a powerful…

“Comic characterisation is usually subordinate to the demands of the plot and therefore these characters tend to be stereotypes and/or one-dimensional characters rather than portraying realistic human emotions”. Is this a fair assessment of the ‘low characters’ in The Tempest? The prevalence of stereotyping and having ‘flat’ characters may be attributed to the strong archetype or creative flexibility (respectively) that this creates for the author. When the audience sees a stereotype, they…