Prospero as a character
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- he is well-loved by the people --> Antonio cannot afford to kill P openly so he ha
- terms of exile --> such that P and his young innocent daughter dies
- Gonzalo --> integrity and honour that saves them
- when we meet P --> still tormented by what happened to him
- meet a man filled with rage, wants justice for what has been done to him, angui
- at the end of the play: we meet a ruler who has undergone a journey, who has s
capable of change through wisdom, compassion and imagination
- the hope is (as P readies himself to leave) that he is going to be a much better ru
- human choice: when confronted with the men who have done wrong to him, wh
- Alonso is fully repentant but Sebastian and Antonio are not and Shakespeare lea
you are not able to magically erase evil
- idea of fate --> life is not predetermined, that you have human choice (Shakespe
- Prospero and the two people he exercises power over (Ariel and Caliban)
- Ariel --> embodiment of the creative imagination
- empathy --> imagine the other perspective and this is where the development c
- Ariel is part of P's journey to self-realization
- if he is going to practice just authority/governance --> needs to recognize that at
questionable
- he has to examine his use of power and use of authority
- Caliban --> disempowered by Prospero
- parallels between Sycorax and Prospero
- P --> use of his magic is at times questionable
- exploring Caliban --> theme of power and what it means to be disempowered by
- disempowered --> voice is silenced, rights are removed and in the case of Caliba
- Shakespeare: Caliban is given poetry --> encourages audience to see beyond the
- fully human --> to look at oneself, to learn and grow and reflect
- turning point for Caliban is when he recognizes that his allegiance to Steph and T
'double ass' that that is his folly
- his self-awareness comes from the recognition that he dehumanizes himself
- linked to development of P's character --> must recognize that Caliban and him
equally have the capacity of both evil and good in them
- P's equally exercises power over Miranda
2022/05/05 10:16
- he is well-loved by the people --> Antonio cannot afford to kill P openly so he ha
- terms of exile --> such that P and his young innocent daughter dies
- Gonzalo --> integrity and honour that saves them
- when we meet P --> still tormented by what happened to him
- meet a man filled with rage, wants justice for what has been done to him, angui
- at the end of the play: we meet a ruler who has undergone a journey, who has s
capable of change through wisdom, compassion and imagination
- the hope is (as P readies himself to leave) that he is going to be a much better ru
- human choice: when confronted with the men who have done wrong to him, wh
- Alonso is fully repentant but Sebastian and Antonio are not and Shakespeare lea
you are not able to magically erase evil
- idea of fate --> life is not predetermined, that you have human choice (Shakespe
- Prospero and the two people he exercises power over (Ariel and Caliban)
- Ariel --> embodiment of the creative imagination
- empathy --> imagine the other perspective and this is where the development c
- Ariel is part of P's journey to self-realization
- if he is going to practice just authority/governance --> needs to recognize that at
questionable
- he has to examine his use of power and use of authority
- Caliban --> disempowered by Prospero
- parallels between Sycorax and Prospero
- P --> use of his magic is at times questionable
- exploring Caliban --> theme of power and what it means to be disempowered by
- disempowered --> voice is silenced, rights are removed and in the case of Caliba
- Shakespeare: Caliban is given poetry --> encourages audience to see beyond the
- fully human --> to look at oneself, to learn and grow and reflect
- turning point for Caliban is when he recognizes that his allegiance to Steph and T
'double ass' that that is his folly
- his self-awareness comes from the recognition that he dehumanizes himself
- linked to development of P's character --> must recognize that Caliban and him
equally have the capacity of both evil and good in them
- P's equally exercises power over Miranda
