Response Paper The Tempest
Shakespeare’s: The Tempest
I. Message of the Play
There are 3 main themes in Shakespeare’s: The Tempest just as there are in any other play. One of the themes in The Tempest consist of the falseness of realities justice which creates an illusion. During the play it was shown that the view of one character controlled everyone’s fortune within the story. The way this was presented was how the main character Prospero would walk around the stage and was not even noticed by any of the character who were acting, but he would manage to have control over them. The second theme would be distinguishing the monsters from actual men. Caliban was portrayed as a monster or so called demon. He possessed demonic horns and walked around as he had hooves for feet. Though it seemed that he was accepted by Miranda, but opposed by Prospero, Caliban’s actual identify at times seemed a bit ambiguous. The third theme following the play was colonialism. Following the second theme noticed how devilish Caliban was he would make a remark to Stephano to kill Prospero. Given the thought of opportunity Stephano then sees himself with Prospero’s daughter ruling as King and Queen.
After capturing the entire play it revealed that Prospero was actual stranded on an island with his daughter Miranda for years. It took a while to notice that feature only because of the title of the play being The Tempest, which was the title of the storm in the play that landed them on the island. The most outstanding moment in the play was when Caliban rose up on his feet and began his affection with Miranda. He rose up with demon horns in pitch blue light shunned onto him and the obscure music started to play. The feeling of distress shadowed the stage as this scene took place. Without the visual effects of the lighting, the horrific music playing, and the demonic horns on the character the setting would have never been interpreted as Caliban being a sinister character.
II. Production Quality
The
I. Message of the Play
There are 3 main themes in Shakespeare’s: The Tempest just as there are in any other play. One of the themes in The Tempest consist of the falseness of realities justice which creates an illusion. During the play it was shown that the view of one character controlled everyone’s fortune within the story. The way this was presented was how the main character Prospero would walk around the stage and was not even noticed by any of the character who were acting, but he would manage to have control over them. The second theme would be distinguishing the monsters from actual men. Caliban was portrayed as a monster or so called demon. He possessed demonic horns and walked around as he had hooves for feet. Though it seemed that he was accepted by Miranda, but opposed by Prospero, Caliban’s actual identify at times seemed a bit ambiguous. The third theme following the play was colonialism. Following the second theme noticed how devilish Caliban was he would make a remark to Stephano to kill Prospero. Given the thought of opportunity Stephano then sees himself with Prospero’s daughter ruling as King and Queen.
After capturing the entire play it revealed that Prospero was actual stranded on an island with his daughter Miranda for years. It took a while to notice that feature only because of the title of the play being The Tempest, which was the title of the storm in the play that landed them on the island. The most outstanding moment in the play was when Caliban rose up on his feet and began his affection with Miranda. He rose up with demon horns in pitch blue light shunned onto him and the obscure music started to play. The feeling of distress shadowed the stage as this scene took place. Without the visual effects of the lighting, the horrific music playing, and the demonic horns on the character the setting would have never been interpreted as Caliban being a sinister character.
II. Production Quality
The