In The Tempest, the sea is presented as a strict and impartial element: “When the sea is. In The Tempest, an island is a place of isolation for several people: great magician Prospero and his […]
The Balinese performance was more impressive than the Utah Valley University play because Shakespeare would have chosen the far more delicate quality of this performance to emphasize his ideas on the colonialism theme in “The […]
In addition, Ferdinand is used to show the theme of ‘service to duty’. In this case, it is clear that the reference to Caliban is used to show the different forms of servitude.
One of the main conditions according to which a daughter is going to be protected in the future is the strong assuredness that a daughter is in good and loving hands, protected like under the […]
Shakespeare’s play The Tempest is a story of the magical loss and restoration of the man’s power, wherein actions develop in the unchronological order, simultaneously showing past and present events.
A density of narrative elements used in the play creates dynamics between the character and the plot, motif and problem by including techniques implied by the sources.
In an introduction to The Tempest, Virginia Vaughan, and Alden Vaughan explore the theme of semantic similarity between Shakespeare and Virgil’s plays even to a further extent: “Shakespeare’s play is an imitation of the main […]
Magic In the opening of the play Prospero is the one who, had conjured the storm in a desire to entice his, brother Antonio and the king of Naples, Alonso.
Using The Tempest and other plays by Shakespeare, Ronald Takaki tried to show the examples of the attitude of the citizens of New England to Indians. One of the main reasons for Indians to be […]
For instance, Ferdinand promises to make Miranda “the queen of Naples” and it does not even occur to him that he may not be able to fulfill his promise.
The wizard puts a curse on the ship of the King of Naples, and his retinue to crash off the island’s shores in order to arrange the fate of his daughter Miranda.
For example, the mother in the family in the 2019 remake is presented as a kind woman without any sins, with her daughters claiming that she is never angry and her partly corroborating this statement, […]
This particular reading of the play implies that Shakespeare was deliberately expressing a view of colonialism in the New World in the guise of Prospero the magician, usurping Caliban, the slave.
Considering that this character is not a person but a spirit, one should consider character traits and external features in revealing the character in the staged play.
Context: The boatswain of the ship carrying the Italian dignitaries is wrestling with the storm that threatens to destroy the entire ship and all its crew.
By mimicking the style of performance that scholars and historians have established to have existed at the end of the 16th century in England, the staging brings forward certain originality.
However, in Ferdinand’s case, the emotional pain was the result of a misunderstanding after the ship wrecked, Ferdinand came to the assumption that he was the only survival completely on his own.
For instance, he instructs Aerial to fly around the boat in which Antonio, Alonso and their acquaintances are, to cause a storm and consequent shipwreck, but finally manages to save all the occupants of the […]
One of the most effective methods to ensure the satirical sounding of a particular episode in the work of literature, is to overplay the idea that people are actually quite capable of not even noticing […]