Prospero's Daughter

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He’s clearly naïve and silly for thinking this: if Setebos is no match for Prospero’s magic, one hardly thinks a drunken butler would present much of a threat. He is a protective father and, although he approves of Ferdinand as a potential match for Miranda, Prospero still wants Ferdinand to prove himself before he agrees to the marriage. The daughter of Prospero, Miranda was brought to the island at an early age and has never seen any men other than her father and Caliban, though she dimly remembers being cared for by female servants as an infant.

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Their drunken boasting and petty greed reflect and deflate the quarrels and power struggles of Prospero and the other noblemen. They provide a comic foil to the other, more powerful pairs of Prospero and Alonso and Antonio and Sebastian.When he meets Stephano, Caliban believes the drunken butler can kill Prospero and become a better master to him. In his early life, he was a weak leader, contemptuous of the role he was expected to play, and therefore deserving of his political downfall, although that does not excuse his brother’s actions. When a ship is wrecked and the survivors come on to the island Prospero recruits two of them to help him overthrow and kill Prospero. The citizens of the planet are versed in sorcery and psychic powers, earning them the suspicion and ire of the rest of the Imperium of Man. Prospero's sorcery is sufficiently powerful to control Ariel and other spirits, as well as to alter weather and even raise the dead: "Graves at my command have waked their sleepers, oped, and let 'em forth, by my so potent Art.

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For, as Harold Bloom has pointed out in Shakespeare: The Invention Of The Human , Caliban is also a case of failed adoption: Prospero has tried to take ‘this thing of darkness’ under his wing and treat him as his adopted son, educating him and including him as part of his ‘family’.When Miranda first sees Ferdinand, she is convinced he is a spirit and he believes she is a goddess. Old lord, I cannot blame thee / Who am myself attached with weariness / To the dulling of my spirits.

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Fifteen years before the opening of the play he was deposed as Duke of Milan by his brother, Antonio, who gave instructions for his execution, together with his baby daughter, Miranda.When Prospero was cast out to sea, Gonzalo helped him by giving him food and drink as well as rich clothing and important magic books from his library. Ariel uses music to lead the courtiers astray, while Sebastian and Antonio plot to kill the King while he is asleep. Prospero ( / ˈ p r ɒ s p ər oʊ/ PROS-pər-o) is a fictional character and the protagonist of William Shakespeare's play The Tempest. Narrator: You’ve all heard of those trips to an island in the Mediterranean with booze, romance, backstabbing and all-you–can-eat dinners?