Prospero's Daughter

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Neill, Michael. ""Noises,/Sounds and sweet airs": The Burden of Shakespeare's The Tempest." Shakespeare Quarterly. 59.1 (2008): 36–59. Print. Simon Russell Beale (2016), a production directed by Gregory Doran that used Digital technology to create many of the special effects. One of the moons of Uranus is named after her, in keeping with other Uranian moons named after Shakespearian characters.

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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.

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. Sanchez, Melissa E. "Seduction and Service in The Tempest." Studies in Philology. 105.1 (2008): 50–82. Print. In Act I, Scene II, the lines spoken by Miranda to Caliban rebuking him for his ill-treatment of Prospero are frequently reassigned to Prospero. Editors and critics of the play felt that the speech was probably wrongly attributed to her either as a printing error or because actors preferred that no character would remain silent too long on stage. [15] In John Bellairs's novel The Face in the Frost (1969), one of the protagonists is a wizard named Prospero ("and not the one you're thinking of") . Prospero is the main protagonist of Shakespeare’s play, The Tempest. He is probably the most unusual of Shakespeare’s major characters in that, although he is a human being with human qualities, including human faults, he has magical powers: he has the ability to control the weather, the conditions on the island on which he lives, and also the actions and movements of people and the spirits who also live on the island.

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Before the play has begun, Prospero has freed the magical spirit Ariel from entrapment within "a cloven pine". Ariel is beholden to Prospero after he is freed from his imprisonment inside the pine tree. Prospero then takes Ariel as a slave. 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." - Act V, scene 1. Nostbakken, Faith. Understanding The Tempest. 1st. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004. Print. And these, mine enemies, are now knit up / In their distractions. They now are in my power’ (Prospero, 3:3)Critic Jessica Slights creates claims that although many declare that Miranda only reflects the image of an obedient and subservient woman; she argues Miranda's character is independent. Miranda's upbringing shapes her character and the view of the world around her. She is not confined to social constructs as she did not grow up within a conventional society. This leads Miranda to view the world without preconceived ideas. Prospero is the main guardian in her life, but she developed personality traits such as kind-heartedness that are, as many describe, distinct in comparison to Prospero’s. In addition, she challenged the rules of traditional courtship when she pursued Ferdinand. 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. Prospero is the central character in The Tempest and all the action revolves around him. Using magic, he is able to control the movements and all the actions of the other characters, which allows him not only to be the central character but also the actual author of the plot of the play. How does Prospero change throughout The Tempest?

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Leininger also argues that Miranda's sexualisation is a weapon used against her by her father, stating that Prospero uses Caliban's attempted assault and Ferdinand's romantic overtures to marginalise her, simplifying her into a personification of chastity. In Leininger's analysis, Caliban is treated in a similar fashion, forced into the role of an uncivilised savage without heed for his individual needs and desires—much in the same way that Miranda is expected to marry Ferdinand and reject Caliban's advances simply because her father wishes it. [11] Prospero is a magician and the rightful Duke of Milan who has been banished to an island with his daughter, Miranda. Trinculo does not have a very high opinion of either his own intelligence or that of Caliban and Stephano. I must obey. His art is of such power / It would control my dam’s god Setebos / And make a vassal of him’ (Caliban, 1:2)Meanwhile, without Prospero’s knowledge Miranda has proposed marriage to Ferdinand and he has accepted. As Ferdinand has proven himself by carrying out physical tasks, Prospero agrees that the couple can marry.

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In the beginning of the play, Miranda is presented as an obedient character. However, as the play goes on she disobeys her father several times, including by talking to Ferdinand when she has been told not to and helping him with his physical tasks. The very instant that I saw you did / My heart fly to your service, there resides / To make me slave to it and for your sake / Am I this patient log-man’ (Ferdinand, 3:1)Prospero learns that the king and his followers are feeling guilty and sends Ariel to bring them to him.