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Detriment Of Illusions In The Tempest '

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Illusions are one of those things that will allow the human brain to play tricks on them and giving them the ability to see things that aren’t really there. Illusions can be detriment’s. The reason for this is that you can believe that something is real but little do you know, the whole thing is imaginary or just a simple trick on your mind. For instance, say that you are craving some chocolate chip cookies. You want the cookies so bad to the point that you imagine that the cookies are in front of your face even though they are not really there. Things like that can cause you to crave the cookies more and more as long as you are sitting there and thinking about them. Examples like that show you exactly why illusions are detriment’s instead of being values. …show more content…

The Tempest is an example of where you see those type of illusions. The character Prospero is a sorcerer who practices white magic that is not affiliated with black magic and evil. There was an incident in Act III, Scene III where Alonso, Sebastian, Antonio and Gonzalo gathered around the dinner table to sit down for dinner and during this point a possession of spirits enter the room with a banquet of food. Prospero is the last one to enter the room but he is invisible and no one sees him. Just as they prepare to eat, Ariel enters the room and makes the food disappear with a laugh. The food that they were going to eat can be perceived as either real or fake but due to the fact that sorcerers were near that will something they will never

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