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    The Tempest - Caliban

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    Determines Your Status? The strangest‚ yet most intriguing relationship in Shakespeare’s play‚ The Tempest‚ seems to be the one that is shared between Prospero and Caliban. Through their constant interactions‚ the audience is able to explore the important motif of master-servant relationships‚ which is one of the major themes that the entire play seems to be built upon. In The Tempest‚ although it seem as if one’s status and background plays a big part in affecting one’s position on the social

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    Through the years there has been much debate as to whether Shakespeare’s The Tempest is an Allegory to European colonization and colonial life‚ or if it is his "farewell to the stage" with a complete overview of the stage and a compilation of all of his characters into a few‚ in which the playwright himself being presented as Prospero. Is The Tempest an allegory to European colonization‚ or is it Shakespeare‚ presenting his formal farewell to the stage? Many believe that Shakespeare‚ personified

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    Feminism & The Tempest

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    Bradley ENG-3U1 December 10‚ 2007 Feminism in the Tempest Feminist theory aims to understand the nature of inequality and focuses on gender politics‚ power relations and sexuality. To do Feminist Research is to put the social construction of gender at the center of one ’s inquiry. Feminist theory is about seeing gender as a basic organizing principle which profoundly shapes/mediates the concrete conditions of our lives. In the play The Tempest‚ by William Shakespeare Miranda is a perfect example

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    Shakespeare use soliloquies to present the characters of Macbeth and Hamlet? A soliloquy is a comprehensive and unremitting dialogue spoken by a single person. The speaker is presenting his or her thoughts audibly‚ thus providing a forthright‚ outspoken‚ unremitting‚ and uninterrupted flow of thought‚ which channels his or her consciousness directly to the audience. Shakespeare uses soliloquies to present the characters of Macbeth and Hamlet in speckled ways; the soliloquies define the thoughts and

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    2013 The Role of the Supernatural in "The Tempest" From the very start of Shakespeare ’s play‚ "The Tempest"‚ magic is used to mesmerize the audience. The entire plot of this play is very reliant on the supernatural. Prospero‚ Ariel‚ and Caliban all have magical powers. Magic lets these characters‚ mainly Prospero‚ manipulate the other characters and make them do their bidding. Magic also maneuvers the plot‚ relationships‚ love and themes of the play. Magic is the motivation behind movement and plot

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    The Other in the Tempest

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    The Other in the Tempest In order to understand the characters in a play‚ we have to be able to distinguish what exactly makes them different. In the case of "The Tempest‚" Caliban‚ the sub-human slave is governed largely by his senses‚ making him the animal that he is portrayed to be and Prospero is governed by sound mind‚ making him human. Caliban responds to nature as his instinct is to follow it. Prospero‚ on the other hand‚ follows the art of justifiable rule. Even though it is easy

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    THE TEMPEST AND COLONIALISM. There is much in the topical dressing of The Tempest which relates it to the colonial adventure of the plantation of Virginia and with the exotic Bermudas. Critical opinion has varied as to whether The Tempest is closely related to colonialism as undertaken in the Jacobean period; E.E. Stoll wrote in 1927 that ‘There is not a word in The Tempest about America… Nothing but the Bermudas‚ once barely mentioned as faraway places.’ On Stoll’s side we can say that the action

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    The Tempest opens in the midst of a storm‚ as a ship containing the king of Naples and his party struggles to stay afloat. On land‚ Prospero and his daughter‚ Miranda‚ watch the storm envelop the ship. Prospero has created the storm with magic‚ and he explains that his enemies are on board the ship. The story Prospero relates is that he is the rightful Duke of Milan and that his younger brother‚ Antonio‚ betrayed him‚ seizing his title and property. Twelve years earlier‚ Prospero and Miranda were

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    Giorgione The Tempest

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    Giorgione‚ “The Tempest” 1509. This artwork is representational because it looks realistic. It is in the textbook on page 453. You are looking at the painting of an almost nude women who nurses her child. To the left of her is a man wearing a German Mercenary Solider glaze at them. His two-toned hosiery seems to identify him as a member of the Campagnia Della Calza. There in the foreground stands a pediment topped by two broken columns. In the middle of the artwork there is a bridge that crosses

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    The Tempest: Caliban

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    As an actor‚ select one character from ‘The Tempest’ and discuss how you would create the role‚ bearing in mind its function in the plot and its relationship to other characters. I have chosen Caliban to discuss‚ since‚ as an actor‚ I find him the most interesting character and thus the most enjoyable to discuss. Caliban’s function in the plot is one that is difficult to define. He is not the key protagonist‚ since this title belongs to the treacherous Alonso in his usurpation of Prosporo

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