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The Tempest Movie Vs Play

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I believe that the movie of the play was much better. There are many things that differ from the movie compared to the play, for example the character Prospero in the book was described as a man but in the movie she was a girl and her name was now Prospera. I feel that in the movie it did a better job of showing the setting just because you could physically see the setting where in the book it was a mental setting. I also believe that in the movie it did a better job of showing how each character had more emotion to what was going on compared to the book. Where to me in the book it seemed like the characters weren’t too expressive to what was going on.

Another thing that I noticed was how some of the scenes were out of order or mixed up in some cases. I think that although there is an obvious difference between the movie and to the play, I do still think that the movie still follows the book well. The reason I say this is because besides some changes with the order that everything happened in the book it still adds up to the same conclusion in the end. The tempest line 171 “And my ending is despair, …show more content…

Another thing is at the ending I feel that the movie did a better job of showing how Prospero/a felt about what she had done. You could see the expression in her eyes and you could tell that she hated what had happened. Overall I believe the movie outdid the book by a long shot, just because you could follow expression and emotion much

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