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    more valuable then the ’destination’ or end results of the journey. Composers commonly reiterate and emphasis this perspective through their texts such as Larry and Andy Wachowki’s science fiction film "The Matrix"‚ William Shakespeare’s play "The Tempest"‚ Kenneth Grahame’s "Wind In The Willows" and Sonya Hartnett’s novel "Surrender". They represent the notion of journeys as consisting of some core ideas primarily including continual personal growth and external changes. The texts involve imaginative

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    Bibliography: 1. John Fowles. The Collector. Boston‚ New York‚ London: Back Bay Books‚ 1997 2. William Shakespeare. The Tempest: An authoritative text sources and contexts criticism; rewritings and appropriations. New York‚ London: W. W. Norton and Company‚ 2004 3. Douglas Lanier. Shakespeare and Modern Popular Culture. Oxford University Press‚ 2002 4. Shakespeare’s Late Plays

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    Gonzalo & Prospero

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    survivors can uncover something even greater. Even Prospero associates Gonzalo with an agent of fate. Gonzalo‚ is one of Prospero’s few friends‚ he has a colonizer’s urge to rule. But if he became king of the island‚ he wouldn’t rule at all. The Tempest is the definition of a "Utopia". For different characters this "utopia" means different things. Though all of the characters have a different image of “utopia”‚ Gonzalo and Prospero both think of the island as their “utopia” they have an almost similar

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    it was not apt to endure the arising obstacles in its path‚ this love is thus not comparable to the ’’true love’’ the author makes allusion to‚ ’’love is not love’’. True love is indeed an ’’ever-fixed mark’’‚ an unfailing variable ’that looks on tempest and is never shaken; It is the star to every wand’ring bark’’. The poet seems to personalize this notion of true love‚ by comparing it to a trusty lighthouse spreading light and hope to every ’’wand’ring bark’’ helping them

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    magic is controlled by Prospero who has learnt the Art thus Ariel’s magic also has a learned aspect (Hibbard‚ Adumbrations of The Tempest in A Midsummer Night Dream pg. 78). The fact that Puck is presented as a

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    consider different cultures being not as good as their own. Modern society has also created stereotypes based on certain cultures including Jews. Evidence of these views is written in texts‚ ‘The Tempest’ by William Shakespeare and ‘City of the Beasts’ written by Isabel Allende. In ‘The Tempest’’‚ a powerful magician called Prospero and his young daughter were deposited on a deserted island‚ presumably in the Mediterranean. He enslaved a native named Caliban and the spirit‚ Ariel using his

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    The Forbidden Planet During the post World War II era‚ in 1956‚ director Alfred M. Wilcox created this scince fiction masterpiece‚ which was based on Shakespeare’s The Tempest‚ The Forbidden Planet. This exciting film stars Leslie Nielson‚ Walter Pidgeon‚ and Anne Francis. If you have read The Tempest‚ you know that a ship full of people crash onto a desolate island inhabiting a mage and his daughter and a deformed fish man. In The Forbidden Planet‚ rather than a vessel crashing‚ it’s replaced

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    never fail until you stop trying.” People who go from one country to another must not stop trying. They leave everything behind in order to come to something better‚ therefore‚ failing is not an option. The stories‚ “Balboa” by Sabina Murray‚ “The Tempest” by William Shakespeare‚ and “Of Plymouth Plantation” by William Bradford‚ all show how the early immigrants acted when they arrived. The main characters or character in all of these stories brought bad to where they arrived. In the story “Balboa

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    Margaret Atwood’s Hag-Seed is a “take on Shakespeare’s play” The Tempest. The plot focuses on Felix and how he represents‚ as well as performs as‚ Prospero. The story of Felix and the story of Prospero are often parallel to one another. However‚ the conclusion of the play and Atwood’s novel do not seem to line up with one another. Atwood offers a summary of The Tempest at the end of the novel and this summary describes how Prospero ends the play‚ “Prospero finished the play with an epilogue‚ in which

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    boss drives." (Theodore Roosevelt). Like what Roosevelt said‚ leader and boss are different. Leader means use knowledge and skill let people follow and boss means use power let people follow. Creon and Prospero are the leaders in Antigone and The Tempest‚ and their leadership has some similarities and differences. And the difference makes Creon and Prospero have different results. Knowledge is more important than power‚ because knowledge can control the direction of result. In my opinion‚ leadership

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