The Tempest Research Paper
The Tempest
The Tempest was written during the years 1610-1611. The Tempest is Shakespeare's last play. The play has many parts that represent groups of people during the colonization of Virginia. Shakespeare created different people to emphasize the different influences that were present during the colonization of the new world. The Tempest can be approached as a fascinating tale that served as a masquerade for the creation of a new society in America” (Takaki 28).
The Tempest serves as a great reflection of how the english reacted and treated the new land and each other. An example of this occurs when the men are on the land. Gonzalo,Sebastian and Alonso were happy to be alive after a huge storm. Some of them wanted to just leave, other thought the land they were on was a great find. The men viewed the land at first as mysterious and fruitful. Prospero put the men on the island after their shipwreck he caused. …show more content…
Antonio (prospero’s brother); the man who stole the dukeness from prospero and casted him to the island he is on.
Alonso(current king of naples) and sebastian( the king’s brother) who is persuaded to attempt to kill his brother for the throne by antonio. This happens when antonio and sebastian are the two awake with the (Ariel’s presences) -unconscious king of naples and son of the king: Ferdinand (Heir to the throne). Caliban is introduced at this point of the play. Caliban is a monstrous, uncivilized, the son of a witch, perhaps half-man and half-monster. Caliban is a “Savage” in the story, Caliban represents what the english thought of the indians during the colonization and the controlling of wild environments. Caliban like some indians were educated by prospero(the English). Caliban learned the language prospero and miranda spoke, with this allowed caliban to take advantage of the language. When caliban tries to rape miranda and is imprisoned, Caliban viewed prospero as oppressive. “You taught me language, and my profit on’t. Is I know how to curse. The red plague rid you for learning me your language! “ (I.ii.366–368)A quote from
caliban talking about how he uses the language he was taught to use it on his oppressors. Miranda in our play is our feminine role, the young,compassionate, and naive. Prospero picks her husband for her(Ferdinand)with the help from his spirit helper(Ariel). Ariel helped Prospero follow out with the plan to get all of Prospero’s enemies on that one island. A Lot of foreshadowing occurs in this story based off of Prospero’s plan to cause the tempest to bring the men to land. We can predict that Prospero has a plan to confront these men for some reason.With the amount of effort and sorcery involved, the issue is personal and could explain why prospero is on the island even if he was king.This Play is a great masquerade for the creation of a new society in America because of how the play ends with prospero forgiving all his enemies in order to drop magic and go back to being king of naples. This is great example for creation of a new society in America considering how people back in naples and his very own brother threw him out of his throne and still tried to persuade one to kill the new king. On this island prospero has obviously learned way to live and correct mistakes from the past experiences with forgiveness. This serves as a great ideology for the new society in America.
The Tempest was written during the years 1610-1611. The Tempest is Shakespeare's last play. The play has many parts that represent groups of people during the colonization of Virginia. Shakespeare created different people to emphasize the different influences that were present during the colonization of the new world. The Tempest can be approached as a fascinating tale that served as a masquerade for the creation of a new society in America” (Takaki 28).
The Tempest serves as a great reflection of how the english reacted and treated the new land and each other. An example of this occurs when the men are on the land. Gonzalo,Sebastian and Alonso were happy to be alive after a huge storm. Some of them wanted to just leave, other thought the land they were on was a great find. The men viewed the land at first as mysterious and fruitful. Prospero put the men on the island after their shipwreck he caused. …show more content…
Antonio (prospero’s brother); the man who stole the dukeness from prospero and casted him to the island he is on.
Alonso(current king of naples) and sebastian( the king’s brother) who is persuaded to attempt to kill his brother for the throne by antonio. This happens when antonio and sebastian are the two awake with the (Ariel’s presences) -unconscious king of naples and son of the king: Ferdinand (Heir to the throne). Caliban is introduced at this point of the play. Caliban is a monstrous, uncivilized, the son of a witch, perhaps half-man and half-monster. Caliban is a “Savage” in the story, Caliban represents what the english thought of the indians during the colonization and the controlling of wild environments. Caliban like some indians were educated by prospero(the English). Caliban learned the language prospero and miranda spoke, with this allowed caliban to take advantage of the language. When caliban tries to rape miranda and is imprisoned, Caliban viewed prospero as oppressive. “You taught me language, and my profit on’t. Is I know how to curse. The red plague rid you for learning me your language! “ (I.ii.366–368)A quote from
caliban talking about how he uses the language he was taught to use it on his oppressors. Miranda in our play is our feminine role, the young,compassionate, and naive. Prospero picks her husband for her(Ferdinand)with the help from his spirit helper(Ariel). Ariel helped Prospero follow out with the plan to get all of Prospero’s enemies on that one island. A Lot of foreshadowing occurs in this story based off of Prospero’s plan to cause the tempest to bring the men to land. We can predict that Prospero has a plan to confront these men for some reason.With the amount of effort and sorcery involved, the issue is personal and could explain why prospero is on the island even if he was king.This Play is a great masquerade for the creation of a new society in America because of how the play ends with prospero forgiving all his enemies in order to drop magic and go back to being king of naples. This is great example for creation of a new society in America considering how people back in naples and his very own brother threw him out of his throne and still tried to persuade one to kill the new king. On this island prospero has obviously learned way to live and correct mistakes from the past experiences with forgiveness. This serves as a great ideology for the new society in America.