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Shakespeare's The Tempest 1 History
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Is The Tempest Shakespeare's final play? How does it differ from his other plays? What kind of literature does The Tempest most resemble? Why are w...

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Shakespeare's The Tempest 2 Prospero's Powers
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Does Prospero have magical powers? And if he does, could he get us into Hogwarts? We've been waiting so patiently...

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Shakespeare's The Tempest 3 Inciting Event
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What happens during The Tempest's inciting event? We're glad you asked. No, really. Otherwise, we read the whole play for nothing. 

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Shakespeare's The Tempest 8 The Harpy 46 Views


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Shakespeare's plays the tempest a'la Shmoop

00:10

So Ferdinand is happy you know he's proposed to

00:19

miranda Things were going well The other ship direct group [Ferdinand proposes to Miranda]

00:22

is famished but like they're actually turns out to be

00:26

like a fairy spread of food for that right a

00:29

banquet awaiting them Pretty miraculous But as we already know [Banquet of food appears]

00:34

no such thing as a free lunch and this lunch

00:37

is going to come with a bit of emotional punishment

00:40

So they sit down to dine at this feast but [Brothers sit down at feast]

00:42

then a sort of scary monster harvesting and she starts

00:48

accusing all the important men So a lot So antonio

00:53

and sebastian the crimes that they have committed and they

00:56

will commit So it's all like a stage kind of [Police officers appear]

01:04

thing where they're confronted with their own wrongs and they

01:07

don't know that prospero's behind it right Importantly right They

01:10

think of this as like just a supernatural apparition right [Woman discussing Prospero]

01:13

Exactly This is like literally being confronted by their demons

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Yeah and so basically this is a moment where alonso

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who we've thought of as you know the kingly figure

01:24

more or less innocent in the kind of scheming that's [Alonso sitting on throne]

01:27

been going on finally admits that there was foul play

01:31

involved with prospero being ousted from along yeah that he

01:36

consented to it right That he was you know at

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least partially complicity Yeah and sebastian and antonio at this

01:45

point are still hiding the fact that they're basically plotting

01:49

to do the same thing to alonso on that they [Hand picks up Alonso off the throne]

01:52

don't really care they don't really have a strong sense

01:54

morality for them it's all about power Yeah so i

01:58

mean as as ones who presumably of convinced alonso to

02:01

go through with this in the first place They also

02:03

are the ones who are willing to kill alonso himself

02:05

Tio send power right Yeah absolutely And antonio is importantly

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just advance That he has no remorse about what's happened [Antonio sitting at banquet table]

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in the past And so we can assume that he

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has no remorse about what's going to happen What's about

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to happen or what is currently happening Soulless heartless dude

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