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Forgiveness is defined as the pardoning of one’s wrongs, while justice is defined as administering the proper punishment or reward for one’s action. William Shakespeare’s play, “The Tempest”, is about a sorcerer named Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan, and his plot to restore his dukedom using illusion and manipulation. Prospero wants to get revenge on his brother, Alonso, because Alonso took his dukedom from him and exiled Prospero and his daughter, Miranda, onto a faraway island. He…

A comparative study of Shakespeare’s play, The Tempest and Yojiro Takita’s foreign film, Departures effectively highlights an individual’s ability to explore results in lasting impacts on their perspectives of the world and themselves. Both composers incorporate the vital idea that characters’ discoveries subsequently reflect integral actions of change. The Tempest sets the progressive drama of rediscovering the past through characters such as Miranda and her delayed knowledge of her history and…

After reading “The Tempest” by William Shakespeare, I have learned that one of the themes of this story is justice. Prospero tries to seek justice by reclaiming the position of the Duke of Milan from his brother Antonio. One way of seeing this is that Prospero’s ideas of both justice and injustice are hypocritical, as he sees Antonio removal of him as immoral, he still enslaves Caliban and Ariel to accomplish his tasks he has given them. In my opinion, Prospero wants justice from what is brother…

Liane’s story in terms of bio-psycho-social development over the years is rather complex. Biological development focuses on an adolescent’s puberty and the correlated physical changes. “All of Liane’s hair fell out in seventh grade” (Franzini , 2007). Due to stress Liane developed an incurable autoimmune disease, which caused her hair to fall out. She was stressing over boys, “girlie stuff” (Franzini , 2007). Which most girls do so during this time in their life, but Liane faced an abnormal…

Have you ever had power over others before? In the play The Tempest Their is lots of power over others, between characters. One is in total power over all the others but they do not even realize it. This essay shows/proves that in the play there is a role of power and control over others. The characters Prospero, Caliban, and Ariel have similarities. For instance, Caliban and Ariel are both slaves for Prospero. “Come away, servant, come!”(520 Line ), said Prospero to Ariel. This is how…

David Cuschieri once said, “The mind is a powerful force. It can enslave us or empower us.It can plunge us into the depths of misery or take us to heights of ecstasy. Learn to use power wisely.” In “The Masque of the Red Death” Prince Prospero chases and attempts to gain power which would drive him to those depths of misery. Power and ultimately Prospero's mind would enslave him and lead to his destruction. In “ The Masque of the Red Death”, Edgar Allan Poe writes about Prospero's drive for…

In William Shakespeare’s play “The Tempest” is about a man plot for revenge. Prospero learns to use magic and basically controls everything through the entire play in order to obtain his goal. The play opens in the midst of a storm at sea. The king of Naples and his party were the individuals upon the ship. The ship had troubles staying intact and end up sinking leaving them to fight to survive. Little did they know that Prospero was the one who created the storm. Close by there was an island…

Comparison of Shakespeare and Coates+DuBois When comparing Shakespeare’s The Tempest with W.E.B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folks and Ta-Nehisi Coates Between the World and Me, there are many similarities.Shakespeare wrote the Tempest nearly 300 years before The Souls of Black Folks, and over 400 years before Between the World and Me. This goes to show that racial bigotry and abuse of power have remained relevant for quite some time. In The Tempest Caliban is enslaved and degraded because of…

Captain Normanno and his team search for an intruder. Enrico appears and seems worried because his family is in danger. Only his sister, Lucia and Lord Arturo, Lucia’s bridegroom, can save his family. Enrico expresses his anger because Normanno finds out Lucia is concealing love for Edgardo di Ravenswood. Later, Normanno and his team find out the intruder as Edgardo. Enrico’s anger increases. Lucia waits for Edgardo, and tells Alisa that she has seen the ghost of a girl killed by Edgardo.…

The main dynamic that plays a major role in The Tempest is the desire for power. It is a tale of men searching for ways to murder the other in order to become the Duke of Milan. These power hungry individuals quickly drop all loyalty, and family ties in pursuit of the crown. The first to be betrayed is Prospero, as he and Miranda are sent out on a small raft into the ocean. This allowed his younger brother Antonio to become the ruler. Once Prospero and Miranda had safely arrived on the island,…