William Shakespeare 's The Tempest

In Shakespeare’s The Tempest, in Act 5 Scene 1, lines 33-57, Prospero’s speech shows his redemption by giving up his book, the oak tree, and his power over water. At this point in the play, Prospero is about to get his revenge on the people who have caused him pain. However, as he is giving the soliloquy, he seeks redemption and attempts to reject his powers and revenge. Though he has been living for the past twelve years with wrath and a desire for revenge, he turns away from that path and seeks to become a better person. Shakespeare shows the complete reversal of Prospero’s character through the breaking or giving up of things that are symbolic of his power.

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In English class we created a treasure chest about Prospero based of the book The Tempest by William Shakespeare. We originally decided to build a treasure chest based off the whole book, but we decided to just describe the protagonist, Prospero, from the book. In the chest there will be an assortment of quotes directed from the book that describe each object and the importance of it. The objects inside of the chest include the magic stick, a book of spells, a cloak, a picture of Miranda and Prospero, a picture of Ariel and Prospero, and a picture of Caliban.

Modern critique rank’s Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’ as one of the most preeminent and descriptive plays addressing the role of colonial power and conquest in literature. One of Shakespeare’s last plays, ‘The Tempest’ explores the direct parallel between the working proletariats and wealthy bourgeois. Therefore the focuses of this paper are the implications of hegemony and class alienation, the commoditization of human subclasses, and the commonalities with “The Tempest” and Shakespeare’s life. The analysis addresses the role of social class, the social context of work, the beneficiaries of work, and the implementation and championing of social value systems. This has relevance because Shakespeare’s focus until ‘The Tempest’ primarily was through the lens of the Elizabethan Renaissance. And in correlation to his personal life, the experience of class dichotomy is a recent occasion for Shakespeare. Like Prospero, Shakespeare was an ingenious performer who created to amuse and enlighten. And characters like Ariel and Caliban align with his brilliance and literary captivity respectively.

"The Tragedy of Othello Written by Shakespeare" highlights a variety of ways in which males and females reacted to intense situations. Emotion became the key factor to the cause of a majority of each characters' action in "The Tragedy of Othello Written by Shakespeare.” Iago formed the shift of emotions, majority of the characters in the book were his victims. Such as how he told Brabantio that Othello was using “magic charms” to force Desdemona to desire him. (Shakespeare: Act I, Scene 2, Page 4, Line 66.) Iago’s main victim was Othello, who went from conveying love for Desdemona in Act 1 and Act 2, to conveying hate for Desdemona in Act 3, 4, and majority of 5. He did not figure out his wife was not a cheater until he killed her which caused

The idea of power may get into one’s head and make that person cold hearted; influencing them to do dastardly deeds. In the play The Tempest, Shakespeare tells a story about different characters, Caliban for example, who tries to take the power from a man named Prospero, the main character, and makes Caliban become portrayed as a savage. Prospero becomes powerful with the help of his spell book and Ariel, a spirit under Prospero’s control, when he first arrived to the island. As Prospero becomes powerful, he inherits Caliban’s island and enslaves him. Other characters, such as Stephano and Antonio want power of their own and they become baleful.

William Shakespeare, in The Tempest, writes about Prospero who has the ability to manipulate things by using magic. He and his daughter now live in this island with a slave named Caliban. Prospero has taken over the island and decided to control everything. He can manipulate everyone and everything. He thinks having a lot of knowledge makes him the leader of the island. Prospero’s hunger for power comes

William Shakespeare most definitely did not reference Jeffrey Jerome Cohen’s Seven Monster Theses when writing his play, The Tempest. One of Cohen’s theses though - thesis four “The Monster Dwells at the Gates of Difference” - appears quite prominently in Shakespeare’s work. The thesis articulates that monsters are divisive and often arise in a culture to make one group seem superior to another. Further, societies devise monsters in order to create a scapegoat for social and political inequities and instabilities that surface in that society. In Shakespeare’s The Tempest, the idea applies to Caliban, who serves as a monstrous slave to the magician Prospero. The story follows in part Caliban’s journey towards independence, as he struggles for acceptance from the other characters. Shakespeare’s work blurs the line between monster and man, with a cast of characters seeking power and vengeance against others. Despite being a fellow tamed inhabitant of the island, Caliban never receives fair treatment from his owners. Instead, the two groups with whom he is associated, Miranda and Prospero and Stephano and Trinculo, ostracize Caliban as an unnatural being incapable of bearing human-like qualities. Consequently, throughout the play, Shakespeare distances Caliban as a monster from the other characters and in doing so creates a hierarchy of superiority of one group of characters over another.

Shakespeare’s ‘Othello’ is a play that ends tragically with death of the antagonist, Othello who commits suicide after smothering his wife to death. The other tragic death is Lago’s murder of Roderigo. Lago, who may be considered as the villain of the play, is in a way responsible for all the tragic deaths in the play. He is a schemer who is able to conceal his moves and is considered an honest person by almost every character in the play until the end of the play when it is discovered that he is treacherous and manipulative. Contrary to this perception by most of the characters in the play, Lago is a schemer who is manipulative and treacherous. He is envious of other characters especially Othello who appoints the inexperienced Cassio as a lieutenant and bypasses him. He is determined to revenge because of this and his desire to revenge spurs the tragedy in the play. This paper attempts to show how Iago 's need for revenge leads to his murder of Roderigo, Othello 's murder of Desdemona, and Othello 's suicide.

The mutual purpose of a playwright or past or present time is to seize and grasp the attention of an audience. In order for a playwright to be successful, the playwright must uphold the curiosity of the audience. The catastrophe of Othello is one of Shakespeare’s well-known plays, and it is notorious for catching the attention of the audience. The Shakespeare had an intriguing way of capturing an audience or reader in remarkable way. Shakespeare uses countless methods in order to achieve his goal.

One common theme throughout the stories of many young adults in literature is their desire to find romantic partners and their struggles with relationships. For example, the character of Miranda in The Tempest by William Shakespeare spends her entire life on her father’s island without any possibilities for romance, until Prince Ferdinand crashes there. Miranda immediately falls in love with him and he reciprocates those feelings, ending in their marriage. Another example of a young adult character that struggles with romance is Oscar in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Differently from Miranda, Oscar falls quickly in love with nearly every woman he meets. He has certain expectations for himself as a Dominican man, including having many romantic relationships. At the end of the novel, Oscar finds love with a woman named Ybon in the Dominican Republic, although this relationship is not a mutual nor a healthy one. Miranda and Ferdinand’s relationship and Oscar and Ybon’s relationship are similar because they both started with passionate, quickly developing feelings on the part of two young people. By having read the story of Miranda and Ferdinand’s romance in The Tempest, readers can better understand the problems with Oscar and Ybon’s relationship. This can be seen in the deserving way that Oscar views women, his need for control over them, and his inability to listen and communicate with Ybon, especially about problems in their relationship.

Throughout The Tempest by William Shakespeare, there is a complex interplay that is defined by the different characters that has extraordinary sense of styles. For instance, the protagonist Prospero, who can be defined as a magus or duke, shows the audience the clear personality traits insipidly with the process of the story. On the other hand, Caliban, who is Prospero’s dark, earthy slave, who is the son of a witch-hag, and the only native on the island. He is an extremely complex character in the play, even he is not the main character of the play, and seems as a totally different role as Prospero. He shares the similarities with the protagonist Prospero. The play was written in 1623, when the European countries were in the midst of their age of exploration. Pioneers and navigators from those European countries like England and Spain were traveling all around the world and brought thousands of new ideas and stories about the world. Shakespeare was also one of the members in the Virginia Company, “which refers collectively to a Joint stock company chartered by James 1 on 10 April 1606 with the purposes of establishing settlements on the coast of North America.”(Cite) Thus, even Caliban and Prospero shares some similarities with each other, they refer to two different worlds, the savage world and the civilized Europe. The Prospero’s final victory to get his dukedom, revenge to his enemies

The culture of a space has a powerful influence on the people inhabiting that space, an influence that alters inhabitants to varying degrees. Through the writings of Kant, Montaigne, and Shakespeare–in particular their works What is Enlightenment?, Of Cannibals, and The Tempest, respectively–this idea of cultural influence is able to take shape. Culture is something that all people carry with them, pieces of places and people they have known and groups to which they have been a member. The natural state of people is twisted by culture until there default worldview is changed as if looking through a bias lens. All people carry with them a view of normalcy that is a product of their environments.

William Shakespeare's The Tempest Generally acknowledged as one of Shakespeare's final plays, 'The Tempest' may be described as a romantic tragi-comedy - where love and contentment prosper despite the threatening presence of evil forces. However, beyond the almost 'fairy-tale' like exterior lies a seemingly direct approach to a greatly topical debate at the time. This was the supposed contrast between civilised and uncivilised persons, brought to the fore as a result of recent expeditions overseas. Although pioneering voyages of discovery were not a recent commodity since the travels of Christopher Columbus, almost a century earlier, it wasn't until the early sixteen hundreds that such voyages