To edit or not to edit If I were to direct William Shakespeare's The Tempest I would not change the location of Prospero's speech to the end. ... If Prospero's speech is shifted towards the end of the play then we already know the outcome. ... Prospero was my favorite character and the final scene shows that he is forgiving and never uses magic and power to directly harm anyone even though there are plenty of people that want his power. --- Although some scholars have speculated that Shakespeare wrote portions of The Tempest at an earlier stage in his career, most literary...

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Williams Shakespeare's "The Tempest,"" is the story of Prospero and his daughter Miranda. ... An interesting aspect of Prospero's character is how he reacts to the other characters around him. ... Another character that Prospero controls is Ariel. ... This is very effective because not only does the reader learn about the reasons for the tempest, but also about Miranda and Prospero's history and their relationship together. ... Prospero's has a very interesting range of character traits which makes him a fascinating character. ...

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These ideas are elicited in William Shakespeare's 1611 play 'The Tempest' and Francis Bacon's 1615 essay, 'Of Travel'. ... In Shakespeare's 1611 play, 'The Tempest', the island of 'subtle, tender and delicate temperance,' is characterised with attributes of freedom, disguise and misinterpretation; as Shakespeare's 'green world'.The illusionary portrait of the island thus evokes speculative controversy between the characters. ... Underlined in Shakespeare's tragicomedy, 'The Tempest,' the redemptive tran...

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Isabella was considered as one of Shakespeare's strongest female characters; a women of great virtue and purity. ... They sang "The Guilty Ones" and this was a reference to Shakespeare's play The Tempest. ... Prospero and Ferdinand, two characters in Shakespeare's play, had this conversation about Miranda's virginity. ... Prospero had kept his daughter extremely innocent just as Frau Bergman did not advise her daughter. ... The second writer to be revealed was Homer with two of Iliad's characters. ...

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