- Stranded on an island from a shipwreck.
- Miranda falls in love with Ferdinand much to the joy of her father, Prospero.
- Prospero is the senex, since he pretends to not want them to marry, although he has every intention of having them marry anyway.
- Prospero - "And So it goes"
- If you are around long enough, you will know every line of every script.
- Replacement of female birth with male
- Sycorax has Caliban and puts Ariel in a tree.
- Caliban
- rearranged is Canibal and thus described the "savage" nature of his character.
- One of the best speeches in all of Shakespeare Act III Scene ii line 137.
- Colonizing imagination - fashion the heathens to the look of colonists.
- Caliban represents the savage in everyone.
- Prospero sympathizes with Caliban - "noble savage"
- Usurpation - to take by force (rape)
- To "make it so"
- Poesis - poetry
- Greek derivation - to make
- Grand Mechanism
- Senex --> Blocking --> marriage
- Antonio (Good) and Sebastian (Evil)
- Storm --> Washed up on shore. Miranda sees the wreck.
- Sycorax - evil woman, magical
- Miranda - "O Brave new world"
- Name comes from Mira, or miracle.
- She is innocent/ignorant.
- Ignorance is bliss.
- TIME ~ tempus in latin.
- A spectacle is that which is seen.
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