The Tempest Essay
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Feminist literary criticism arose from the work of first-wave feminism but mostly came about from second-wave feminism in the early 1960s. Inspired by the civil rights movement in the US, women of all ages began fighting to secure a more prominent role in society. They strove for equality between men and women in the workforce. Post-colonial readings represent the aftermath of Western colonialism and force audiences to reflect on the past and think toward a more equal and inclusive future....
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The Tempest is a play written by William Shakespeare. In this play, Prospero, who is the former Duke of Milan, uses his magic to signal a storm and plague the survivors of a shipwreck which includes his brother, Antonio, the King of Naples. Caliban, who is Prospero’s slave plans to free himself of his master but is prevented by Ariel, Prospero’s spirit servant. The young son of the King, who was thought to be dead, falls in love with Prospero’s...
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These years proved to be an age of new discoveries. The exploration of the New World was accompanied by intellectual breakthroughs that meant the beliefs and views previously held by society was changing and evolving (Prf. Steppart). Perhaps the most important theory for this discussion is the theory of the Great Chain of Being. This idea hypothesized that everything in the world had its place in a “divinely ordered hierarchy” (Graff Phelan 94). In overly simplistic terms, the hierarchal order...
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Elizabethan play or theatre, also known as English Renaissance theatre, is referred to as the plays written and performed during the reign of Elizabeth I of England from 1558 to 1603 CE. The actors of the play were generally touring troupes and the plays were written in blank verse. The plays, more often than not, are based on non-religious themes. The first permanent theatre ever built in England was in London, in the year 1576 CE. The Queen herself was...
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Rather than centralizing on postcolonial critiques of Caliban as the colonized ‘Other’ in The Tempest, Atwood reimagines a humanist critique of the Fletcher Correctional Players in Hag-Seed. Inspired by Canada’s reformative prison literature of the Shakespeare Behind Bar program, Atwood adapts the universality of Shakespeare’s language to allow the inmates to transgress their mundane existence through the rehabilitative power of theatre. In The Tempest, Shakespeare explores the relationship between European civilization and the primitive New World ‘savage’, utilizing the European...
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Discoveries can provide new insights that transform an individual’s perception of themselves and the world. Both William Shakespeare’s tragicomedy The Tempest (1611) and Laura Palmer’s memoir, Mystery is the Precinct Where I Found Peace (2002) highlight how introspection enables individuals to be emotionally transformed. Furthermore, both texts reveal how by reconsidering prior assumptions, individuals may discover renewed perspectives and future possibilities. Emotional discoveries can arise from introspection in response to provocative encounters. In The Tempest, Renaissance Humanism’s emphasis upon self-reflection...
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