A noble Neapolitan, Gonzalo / Out of his charity, who being then appointed / Master of this design, did give us, with / Rich garments, linens, stuffs, and necessaries / Which since have steaded much’ (Prospero, 1:2) All these dramas play themselves out before Prospero’s eyes and at the end of the play, he pulls it all together and forgives and pardons everyone. He denounces his magic powers and plans to return to Milan to take up his duties as Duke. He will be accompanied by the young couple, a new generation who will bring their freshness to the stale old European system. Meanwhile, Miranda and Ferdinand get married and Prospero invites the Greek Gods along! Clever, just think of the presents! Meanwhile… what is this!?! Meanwhile Island? In the anime series Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury, the main character's mother goes by the name Prospera Mercury. She has sent her daughter, Suletta Mercury, to a piloting school alongside a Gundam named Aerial.

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In Act 5, Prospero forgives Antonio for everything he has done. Antonio has no lines expressing how he feels about seeing Prospero again. ‘I do forgive thee / Unnatural though thou art’ (Prospero, 5:1)At the end of the play, Prospero intends to drown his books and renounce magic. In the view of the audience, this may have been required to make the ending unambiguously happy, as magic was associated with diabolical works. Neill, Michael. ""Noises,/Sounds and sweet airs": The Burden of Shakespeare's The Tempest." Shakespeare Quarterly. 59.1 (2008): 36–59. Print.

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With the king asleep, Antonio persuades Sebastian that this is a good opportunity to kill him. They think Ferdinand has drowned in the storm, which would make Sebastian, as the king’s brother, next in line to take the throne.King of Naples and father of Ferdinand. Alonso aided Antonio in unseating Prospero as Duke of Milan twelve years before. As he appears in the play, however, he is acutely aware of the consequences of all his actions. He blames his decision to marry his daughter to the Prince of Tunis on the apparent death of his son. In addition, after the magical banquet, he regrets his role in the usurping of Prospero. Antonio Prospero is the rightful Duke of Milan, whose usurping brother, Antonio, had put him (with his three-year-old daughter, Miranda) to sea on a "rotten carcass" of a boat to die, twelve years before the play begins. Prospero and Miranda had survived and found exile on a small island. He has learned sorcery from books, and uses it while on the island to protect Miranda and control the other characters. During the encounter Miranda once again stands up to her father, arguing against his harsh treatment of Ferdinand and defending his honour when Prospero refers to him as nothing more than another Caliban. Vanessa Redgrave (2000); she also played "Ariel" to her father Sir Michael Redgrave's "Prospero" in the 1964 Caedmon recording.

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Prospero controls Ariel and Caliban. He is protective of his daughter Miranda and tries to control her actions on the island. He even uses magic to send Miranda to sleep at the start of the play, to prevent her asking any more questions about their past. He also controls the relationship between Miranda and Ferdinand. Old lord, I cannot blame thee / Who am myself attached with weariness / To the dulling of my spirits. Sit down and rest. / Even here will I put off my hope’ (Alonso, 3:2) Prospero was Duke of Milan until his brother Antonio usurped his position and had Prospero cast out to sea in a small boat with his young daughter Miranda. Prospero and Miranda landed on an island where the only other inhabitants are spirits and a strange creature called Caliban, who he now commands. Prospero asks Ariel to bring all the spirits together and prepare a celebration for the couple. A series of goddesses appear to Miranda and Ferdinand. Melon Cauliflower, by New Zealand playwright Tom McCrory, is about a man Prospero, in his late sixties, who struggles to come to terms with the death of his wife and has mistreated his daughter Miranda. [11]Meanwhile, the Duke Antonio and King Alonso are wandering about with their servants, Sebastian and Gonzalo. There’s a bit of a mid-snooze assassination attempt, but Ariel wakes them up. Moreover, there are two very young people in the forefront of the action – Ferdinand, too young to have been affected by the staleness and corruption of political life, and the completely innocent Miranda, who has never seen another human being apart from her father. ‘Oh brave new world that has such people in it,’ she exclaims when she sees the party dressed in the clothes of European aristocracy. When they emerged from the sea Prospero made their clothes appear freshly laundered.