The Tempest

Throughout the course of The Tempest, all Shakespeare’s characters are controlled by at least one passion. One desire, common to several of the characters, is the desire to rule. This is strongly rooted in Prospero, Caliban, and Stephano as they bend others to their rule by controlling them with their passions. Each one has their own capacity to rule and their success is determined by the methods they use, the way they conduct themselves, and whether they let their passions get the best of them.…

Shakespeare’s play The Tempest, mentioned in Chapter 8, gives an important parallel to Brave New World. In The Tempest, Prospero and his daughter Miranda are exiled to an island where the only other person is a native named Caliban. Prospero takes control of the island and raises Caliban as a slave with an intent to civilize him. When liquor is introduced to Caliban, the liquor becomes his “God,” like soma is to those in the New World. Caliban resents Prospero for taking his home from him, but…

by curiosity. These ideas are explored in the romantic comedy play, The Tempest (1611) by William Shakespeare and the short story, Shooting an Elephant (1936) by George Orwell, these texts effectively portray the power of discoveries, capable of altering one’s perspectives. Discoveries may be difficult to overcome as there are often barriers preventing the individual from accepting their unexpected discoveries. In The Tempest, Prospero conjured up a storm, bringing…

Prospero a magician on an island with the population of three, including a spirit, has whirled up quite a storm. Prospero and his spirit Ariel had created a tempest that wrecked a ship that was passing by the island. In Act 5, Prospero is explaining the recent events that had happen to each group. After the storm the people on the ship are split apart. There are three separate groups under Prospero’s control. There is the group of royals, including Prospero’s brother who stole his power. The…

Like in the times of William Shakespeare himself, The Tempest is filled with an abundance of power struggles between the social classes of society, especially in the form of forced labor. Power is what the majority of the characters hope to obtain, and most will do almost anything to get it. Prospero, the antagonist, goes as far as to control the other characters, not only through magic, but also through his manipulation and persuasion over them, forcing the others to do things at his will.…

In William Shakespeare’s play, The Tempest, Miranda, the daughter of Prospero, states that “Good wombs have borne bad sons” (1.2.119). In regards to nature versus nurture in The Tempest, this quote shows that there is a preference for nature as even the best conditions can still form wicked people. Nature is how a person’s underlying personality determines their behaviour, while nurture is how the environment in which a person is raised impacts their behaviour. The concept of the two applies to…

The concept of freedom and imprisonment may sound like complete opposites, however they are connected. In these two novels, Lord of the Flies, and Tempest the authors unconsciously relate the themes. Both stories take place on an exotic island and the characters are isolated. One story tells a fiction of a group of kids in their natural state with no norms to restrict them. The other is a drama that narrates a man’s excess amount of power. Both reveal that freedom and imprisonment is determined…

environment they are exposed to. In the Tempest, Shakespeare depicts humans with the capability to act with virtue, but argues that over time, they are corrupted by their greed for power, monstrous tendencies and illusion of justice. In the Tempest, Shakespeare displays humans as virtuous but inevitably corrupted by their desire for…

Prospero, the protagonist of The Tempest, and the Duke of Milan, is wronged by his brother, Antonio. Ever since Antonio usurped Prospero, Prospero has been seeking revenge because of his exile on a lonely island, therefore, everything fell into place when Prospero caused the storm with his magic, causing Antonio’s ship to crash onto the island. On the island, Prospero has daughter and two servants with him. Both of his servants came from the witch Sycorax. Ariel had been trapped in a tree on the…

” 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 political power, shown through the plethora of political characters and their schemes, while at the same time parodied by the comic characters. The power of magic and love and its ability to reunite and absolve also plays a major role in the play. The word…