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Thank you We sneak in Shakespeare's plays the tempest Shakespeare
- 00:08
and prospero Kailash shmoop Our shakespeare and prospero connected he
- 00:16
obviously they're both magicians They're both worlds makers and their
- 00:20
good byes Aline are there other other other woman's Well
- 00:23
they're both really interested in the human soul and this
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- 00:26
kind of this play is often read as shakespeare's final
- 00:30
meditation on the human soul What is the tripartite soul
- 00:35
And how is it embodied in the play The greco
- 00:38
roman version of this is the three parts of the
- 00:42
soul our reason appetite and will the person is described
- 00:46
as a charioteer in which ideally reason is at the
- 00:50
helm and appetite and will are driving forward right So
- 00:54
yeah so we can think about the relationship between prospero
- 00:56
and his two servants ariel and caliban as embodying this
- 01:00
kind of proper relationship between reason and the things that
- 01:04
kind of dr recent forward right So prospero himself even
- 01:07
though he's a magician doesn't actually do the magical acts
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he kind of speaks it's his words right and then
- 01:13
aerials one who actually executes them and related lee caliban
- 01:17
is doing the hard labor so he is he's in
- 01:19
charge But he actually doesn't get stuff done himself he
- 01:22
delegates that's exactly the relationship of the playwright to the
- 01:27
performance of the play shakespeare dictates what's going to happen
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but literally could not do it without actors on the
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stage and stagehands And all of that also seems connected
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to the idea of like monarchy It's Really important I
- 01:39
think that prospero is both of ruler and a father
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And likewise shakespeare kind of sit at the helm of
- 01:48
this tradition of playwrights and he's really concerned with building
- 01:53
a future world for that Yeah Our shakespeare and prospero
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connected What is the tripartite soul And how is it 00:02:04.269 --> [endTime] embodied in the play
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