PROSPERO AND SHAKESPEARE
The Tempest is an interesting play written by the famous, William Shakespeare. It is his official and last accomplishment. This play is thought of as one of Shakespeare's "romance" plays. Shakespeare started to write toward the end of his career about magic and fantasy set in far-off lands. These realms that he created are written about in his plays. This particular play is famous for his usage of magic, which is carried through by the Duke of Milan (a state in Italy), who is also known as Prospero the magician. Prospero rules Shakespeare's creation of an island set far away from all realities and creates ruckus for all that land on the island.Prospero who is on an island with his daughter Miranda and some servants to assist with magic is stranded but he uses his magical powers to his advantage. Prospero is on this remote island because his brother Antonio usurped his position of Dukedom. His evil brother sent Prospero and his baby daughter sailing into sea with a boat full of wholes. Antonio sent Prospero away in such an abused boat that he assumes that Prospero had to died at sea, but this is not so. A kind-hearted man named Gonzalo changes Prospero and his daughter's fate and Prospero
Prospero is the main character of The Tempest, he is the most powerful and he manipulates everything. From the start of the play he engineers the tempest that brings the other characters to his island, and after that he uses his magic to control where they go. He can send Ariel to make them fall asleep, freeze them in place, or lead them to wherever he wants them to be. He also seems to have guessed correctly what the psychological reaction of Alonso and the rest would be to Ariel's terrifying accusation while in harpy form, and he seems to have known that Miranda and Ferdinand would fall in love. Caliban's rebellion took him by surprise, though. Antonio and Sebastian, Prosper and Alonso's wicked brothers, plot together to murder Alonso in his sleep in order to seize the crown of Naples, but Prospero sends his servant Ariel to prevent this. Meanwhile, another of Prospero's servants-Caliban, a creature native to the island whom Prospero has made his slave-meets up with a couple of drunken servants from the ship, a jester named Trinculo. He is also part of the antagonists and is a clownish figure. He is Alonso's jester, who washes up alone. Also a good friend of Stephano and very fond of wine, he gets involved in an incompetent "conspiracy" with Stephano and Caliban to kill Prospero and take over the island. But of course because he drinks his plans are not as efficient.
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Approximate Word count = 1464
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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