The Tempest

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…

supernatural. Have you ever wanted to be a powerful magician? Here's quote I found from one of Shakespeare's sonnets, "They that have power to hurt and will do none...rightly do inherit heaven's grace's" (Shakespeare, Sonnet 94). Shakespeare's The Tempest shows us that therein us lies magic and can be used to control relationships, environmental elements, and even cause chaos, but also shows that all magic comes with a cost. Even though the play has a comedic and tragic feel with a mix of…

years a new president gets elected in the United States. Two people fight over getting the most votes and then once that one person wins the overall election, they now have power over the whole Unites States. This is very similar to the play "The Tempest", written by Shakespeare. Throughout this play, the reader can see many attempts by the characters to establish their own form of rule. Próspero's brother having taken over the throne is a key catalyst that causes próspero to search for or…

The Tempest is very well one of Shakespeare’s most interesting plays from a literary perspective. While mainly a romance, the play also bears the marks of both a comedy and a tragedy. The play’s romantic side shows up in its magical and supernatural elements, its unusual setting, and in its generous amounts of reconciliation. A happy ending, a soon to be married couple, significant social chaos, and an air of lightheartedness provide the play its comic side. All the while, the play’s inner…

The Tempest and the Power Needed to Rule The main motif of the play The Tempest, written by William Shakespeare (ca. 1611), is the power that a ruler can exert over his fellows and followers. In the play, this ruler is given form in the main character Prospero, the Duke of Milan, who was overthrown by his brother Antonio and the rival Duke of Naples Alonso, and exiled to a deserted island somewhere in the Mediterranean Sea. Over the course of the play, Prospero uses power in a variety of ways…

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…

William Shakespeare never ceases to communicate messages through his works, and The Tempest is no exception. There are many lessons and morals taught throughout the course of the play that have both positive and negative impacts. The themes of those who abuse power damaging others, and those that manipulate others for their own benefit are shown to be negative themes that pertain to the dark side of the story, while forgiveness being worth more than revenge teaches a more positive, valuable…

As we read The Tempest, we see Caliban; a native of the island that we see for the first time in Act 1 Scene 2 and was enslaved by Prospero a settler on an Island. Even though this person we see is being enslaved many people do not really feel bad about what is going on with him. This happens because of the chain of events put him there, and also because of the words that other characters use to describe him. At various points, other characters call him a brute or even a monster, but we are…

In The Tempest, by William Shakespeare, a gendered reading and a contextual reading of social class can be applied to the text to explore the assumptions of women and the Divine Right Of Kings in Jacobean England. The play describes the story of Prospero, the Duke Of Milan, who is banished from Milan to an island with his daughter Miranda, which is only inhabited by a creature named Caliban and an airy sprite named Aries. When the Kings ship returns back from a wedding close to their island,…

The Tempest, the storm brings everyone together and they realize the things they really want in life. The tempest that Prospero creates is a blessing because the characters that are deserving are able to complete their quests and find themselves in the process, the sinners repent, and the chain of being is eventually broken conveying the changing society. The tempest created in the beginning of the play aids all the characters to find who they are and complete their quests. The tempest is…