The Tempest

Title Shakespeare 's last play, The Tempest, is a story about a magician named Prospero who creates a tempest to crash a boat of people on an island. With the help of his servant Ariel, he is able to perform magic, making sure no one on the boat was harmed. Prospero also has another servant (more like a slave), Caliban, who he treats maliciously. Caliban knew the island very well and after Prospero got all the island 's secrets from him, he sent Caliban out of his care, to a rock where he was…

The tempest raged at his bidding. Ariel, Caliban, and a host of apparitions bowed to his command. Miranda, his only daughter, was a puppet in his scheme of redemption. He cast his power on a usurping duke, an esteemed royal advisor, and even the king himself. In Shakespeare’s The Tempest, not a single individual remains untouched by Prospero’s magic power. This theme of power not only pervades the original text, but was also on full display in the Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival’s…

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…

people won’t be saying anything after trying to understand original Shakespearean writings. Thankfully for those people, there have been many more modern adaptations that are easier to read and understand. The English III class read through “The Tempest” by William Shakespeare. The three different version that were analyzed were the original text, the movie version, and the modern adaptation It was easy to tell by the way the class acted that the movie was most preferred, the modern translation…

In the play The Tempest, the wronged Prospero desires power over certain characters to be fully dominant over them, these characters include Caliban Prospero’s slave betrays Prospero and plots to overtake him. Ferdinand Alonso’s son as he falls in love with Miranda Prospero’s daughter works for Prospero in order to prove his love for Miranda. Alonso the King of Naples gets shipwrecked to the island by Prospero and realizes what he does to Prospero in the past. Prospero desires power over these…

presenting them as a revision of historical pieces of art. For this document, the two works of The Tempest and Pocahontas will be studied to investigate the possibility of another revision that seems to impart a more modern cultural viewpoint than of the original work. In order to introduce such an idea, it would be best for an introduction of characters that would go on to aid in the comparison. From the Tempest the cast consists of Prospero, Miranda, Ferdinand, Ariel, Caliban, Alonso,…

Frias 5 Some people might think of Shakespeare?s story The Tempest, as just that, a story about a man who has his position as Duke of Milan usurped by his less than pleasant brother. However, after a careful analysis of The Tempest it is easy to see how prominent the mistreatment of Caliban is and why it is written that way. Throughout the story Caliban is put down multiple times in various manners by different people. We first hear of Caliban in Prospero?s conversation with Ariel and right…

An island is the center of all things magic, causing many to seek revenge and release anger against the magic. The Tempest, by William Shakespeare, takes place on a secluded, Mediterranean island during the 17th century, where the protagonist Prospero, is banished by his wicked brother, Antonio to the sea. Prospero and his daughter, Miranda appear on an island. Miranda meets Ferdinand, the Prince of Naples and falls in love with him. The stranded experience love and forgiveness. Miranda,…

in their attempts to overcome the challenges, in the end the trouble they caused outweighed the positives for the native people. There are three stories that show the same issues with immigration. Those stories are “Balboa” by Sabina Murray, “The Tempest” by William…

of themselves as well as the world around them. This concept is explored, in William Shakespeare’s 1610 play The Tempest and James Thurber’s 1939 short story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, through the exploration of ideas such as power and versions of reality, and also shows how these ideas are influenced by context and can result in new understandings of the world. In The Tempest there are multiple manifestations of power and William Shakespeare displays…