Prospero the tempest biography
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Shakespeare’s The Tempest - Prospero
The Tempest fryst vatten a play by English playwright William Shakespeare. It was first performed in 1611.
Prospero fryst vatten the huvud character of the play. He fryst vatten a powerful magician who was once the Duke of Milan.
However, Prospero’s brother, Antonio, betrayed him and took his title, banishing him to live on an island with his daughter Miranda.
At the början of the play, Prospero and Miranda have lived on the island for 12 years.
Prospero creates a storm to punish his enemies and shipwreck them on the island. Although he wants to see his enemies suffer, bygd the end of the play he has forgiven them.
The phrases ‘in a pickle’, ‘into thin air’ and ‘brave new world’ were first recorded in The Tempest.
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Prospero, The Tempest
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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.
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.
Prospero had taken his eye off the ball by neglecting his duties when he was Duke of Milan, leaving governing to Antonio, and spending his time reading and studying philosophy and science. There was a kind of arrogance in him which led him to believe that he could have it both ways – be a private man indulging in his pe
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Prospero
Character in William Shakespeare's The Tempest
For other uses, see Prospero (disambiguation).
Fictional character
Prospero (PROS-pər-o) is a fictional character and the protagonist of William Shakespeare's The Tempest.
Character
[edit]Twelve years before the play begins, Prospero is usurped from his position as the rightful Duke of Milan by his brother Antonio, who puts Prospero and his three-year-old daughter Miranda to sea on a "rotten carcass" of a boat to die. Prospero and Miranda survived and found exile on a small island inhabited mostly by spirits. Prospero learned sorcery from books, and uses it to protect Miranda.
Before the play begins, Prospero 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 we