Sycorax

In the book “Animal Farm,” by George Orwell, the author portrays how power tends to corrupt and describes how a pig named Napoleon takes over an entire farm. Through the impressive propaganda skills of Squealer and the skillful manipulation Napoleon, with his sly group of trustworthy dogs maintains power and takes over “Manor Farm.” The play “The Tempest,” by William Shakespeare the author deliberately inter-relates several different forms of power during the course of the play. There is…

After Ariel was released from the imprisonment of Sycorax by Prospero’s, “he” becomes the servant of Prospero until he fulfills his tasks. Ariel obeys the tasks that “he” is given by Prospero, so that when he accomplishes the tasks “he” would be freed from being Prospero’s servant. The other servant Caliban…

love itself, in its ability to withstand the test of centuries. Shelley also makes use of Ariel’s canonized connection to nature. The extent of Ariel’s backstory provided in The Tempest is that he was imprisoned “into a cloven pine” by the witch Sycorax, and he did “painfully remain a dozen years”; but because Ariel seems happy to be left to himself with the island at the end of the play, it’s likely that his incarceration was only painful because of an inability to move around and be amongst…

I am spying on Holling Hoodhood again. I am Sycorax, a brown and white rat. I love to chew on stuff. Some people say I have a Swedish accent Holling Hoodhood is a boy who let us out of our cage. Holling is reading from a book out loud right now. When I went up to our apartment yesterday I discovered that we have new neighbors. Clowey is a black girl mouse, and Dobby is a brownish boy mouse. Our home is in the attic of the school, it is really nice up there. I am walking up our stairs to our…

Tempest Caliban is enslaved and degraded because of his appearance. Even though Caliban is native to the island, Prospero comes and enslaves him. It is apparent that Caliban does not want to be a slave when he says things such as “The island's mine by Sycorax, my mother, which thou tak’st from me. When…

“A comic protagonist is the main hero in a comic play, which is usually funny and doesn’t oppress others. This qualities of a comic protagonist does not apply to Prospero, Prospero is neither of these characteristics of a comic hero. Prospero’s dominant and tyrannical character is transgressive against the nature of comedy and a comic hero. Prospero is a puppet master, he controls the happenings on the island directly or indirectly, he either uses his capabilities or uses other characters…

Shakespeare’s play The Tempest and the 2010 film adaption by Julie Taymor have evident differences in characters, themes, and story line. The themes are similar, for instance justice, and power. However, Prospero is played by a women in the film and it modifies some of the relationships and gender roles. Casting choices impacted the dynamics of character relationships. The major casting choice in the film was turning Prospero’s character into a women. The mother-daughter relationship made…

“Dull thing, I say so. He, that Caliban/Whom now I keep in service. Thou best know’st/What torment I did find thee in. Thy groans/Of ever angry bears. It was a torment/Did make wolves howl and penetrate the breasts/To lay upon the damned, which Sycorax/Could not again undo. It was mine art,/When I arrived and heard thee, that made gape/The pine and let thee out./”. After Prospero’s brother took the dukedom from his inadvertent hands, in an attempt to get rid of him, he was shipped out to see…

Chained in Slavery: Slavery has by far been the most demeaning act humans have exercised upon themselves. The influence that slavery had created weak-natured characters like Caliban. In the novel The Tempest, by William Shakespeare, slavery is a subject that is expressed through the character Caliban. He encounters characters like Prospero and Stephano who impose authority over him. His reaction to being a subject of slavery differs depending on what other characters offer him. This explains…

William Shakespeare’s The Tempest is a story that brings up the issue of “man versus monster.” The “monster” of the story, Caliban, is the only native to the island on which the story takes place. Since he is lone native, he is not accustomed to interacting with humans, and therefore, his behavior appears to be animal-like; this is why the manner in which a person conducts him/herself is based off of learned behavior, rather than a natural sense of what is considered morally right and what is…