Prospero
Duke in exile, and a magician
- Wants
- To correct an old injustice and secure his daughter's future.
- Undone by
- He arranges everyone else's choices so carefully that he forgets to ask what they want.
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The Tempest
William Shakespeare →Widely read as a farewell to the stage: a maker who controls the storm and finally gives it up. Notice who gets to speak, and in what language.
Study guide
This work is still in copyright, so there is no full text on the page. What you get instead: the context, the cast, the ideas and the themes — enough to read it well, and to know exactly what to watch for in the first thirty pages.
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on.”
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Caliban
Inhabitant of the island, enslaved
- Wants
- To be left alone on the island he says is his.
- Undone by
- He has learned only the language that curses, because that is the language he was taught.
Now read the first page with all of this in mind.
The notes here are the map; the book is the journey.