The Tempest Analysis

“The Tempest”

The Tempest is a play written by William Shakespeare, and has the main themes of Power, Control, Betrayl, Forgiveness and revenge.

When Shakespeare says “Farewell master” this makes the reader believe that Caliban is a slave mainly due to the vocabulary choice of “Master” as the connotations of this word are: powerless, being ruled, weak, and scared, This influences the initial idea that Caliban is powerless and weak. In addition to this Caliban continues to take Prospero’s commands seriously and mannerly mainly because of Prospero’s use of magic to take advantage of Caliban.

The word “Farewell” has dual implications because Caliban has not had a moral relationship with Prospero, which can suggest that he is going to plot against Prospero or say farewell to him forever.

Ferdinand and Miranda’s type relationship shows Shakespeare’s ideas about true love, recognising not just the emotional side of love, but the physical nature as well. Shakespeare does to show how Miranda relationship with Ferdinand is different to Prospero. We can infer that Ferdinand is attract to Miranda because in Latin origin meaning “worthy of admiration”. In my opinion Shakespeare’s has done this to show the relationship between them. This links to theme like change and transformation because Miranda change when she met Ferdinand and how her love towards

The Tempest, like many of Shakespeare’s plays, has sustained to elicit a broad variety of scholarly interpretations and has eluded any conclusive judgements as to its dominant themes or the nature of its character.

Shakespeare uses a variety of writing techniques, one of which is the use of rhyme

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