Kelvin's+Speare+Notes

__ Summary __ A series of rebellion, treacheries, mutinies and conspiracies is all Antonio wants and the play begins when he takes the authority of his brother, Prospero, and becomes the Duke of Milan. In order to rule peacefully, Antonio organizes a coup for Prospero and this is when Prospero gets burnished into a boat at the sea, together with her three year old daughter, Miranda. Luckily, they meet with a man called Gonzalo who provides them with food and clothes. The sea water takes them to an island where by Prospero overpowers the owner and becomes the lord of the island. After fifteen years, destiny brings Antonio to the island in a ship. A violent storm rages around the ship at sea. All this is caused by Prospero, the lord, through his magical powers. All the sailors ask the Boatswain to take an action and prevent the ship from sinking but all he does is to get annoyed. One of the Prospero’s spirits, Ariel, arouses the tempest as he was informed to do by his master Prospero. Seeing this, all the sailors jump out of the ship and they are washed away by water. They are brought at the shore but Ferdinand, a sailor and also son of Alonso, can’t find the others.

After they come at the shore, this is when Ariel becomes invisible and accompanied by his songs, brings Ferdinand to the island. Immediately Ferdinand arrives in the island, he meets Miranda, Prospero’s daughter, and they fall in love. Later, Antonio and his friends, who were washed away by the water, arrives and they meet Prospero. Prospero gets happy to see his brother and he decides to forgive him for what he did. Antonio also repents for what he did and they both become friends again. Their forgiveness is strengthened by the two couples, Miranda and Ferdinand.

Later after the forgiveness and reconciliation takes part, Prospero sets Caliban and Ariel free just as he had promised them before. Then, as you can see, it becomes a happy time once more for each and every character in the story.

__ Main characters __


 * 1) __ Prospero __ : He is the play’s protagonist and father to Miranda and together with his daughter, they were banished into an island by his brother Antonio. I also believe that he is the dynamic character because he undergoes some important personal changes after his brother, Antonio takes away wealth from him.


 * 1) __ Antonio __ : He is the brother to Prospero who wants power and therefore, takes the one of his brother. He banishes Prospero into an island where they both reconcile at the end. From his evil deeds, he becomes the play’s Antagonist.


 * 1) __ Ferdinand __: He is the son of Alonso who falls in love with Miranda immeadiately they meet. He prepares himself for any challenges set by Miranda’s father, Prospero, in order to win her.
 * 1) __ Miranda __ : she is the daughter of Prospero with whom they were banished into the island. She marries Ferdinand and together, they play a very major role for continuation of reconciliation between Prospero and Antonio at the end.
 * 1) __ Ariel __ : He is Prospero’s spirit helper whom Prospero rescued from a witch called Sycorax. He serves Prospero in order to be let free and get to leave the island.

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 * 1) __ Caliban __: He is the son of deceased witch Sycorax, who works for Prospero as his servant also. He believes that the island rightfuly belongs to him and also needs freedom from Prospero to explore his island.
 * What's past is prologue : I believe that what the quote is trying to say is that something that is past repeats itself and continually influences the present. We can call this history. It can also mean that what happened before, causes the events happening today. For example, here in Kenya, our first president, Mzee Jomo Kenyatta fought for freedom. We gained freedom because of his struggle and till today, we use and maintain the same freedom. This freedom guides and helps us in our daily life. As you can see, it’s through the “past” freedom of Jomo Kenyatta, that we gain the “prologue” freedom of today. How could we have freedom today if we never fought for it in the past?


 * He that dies pays all debts: From my own interpretation, I can say that this quote mainly focuses own people who especially commits suicide. Those who feel that they canever overcome real life problems. Those who believe that when they have problems, the only path to be out of it is by death. Therefore, from these words, I can say that this quote means that if you have many problems, death can be the solution since you will not face them again. For example, a blind man in Nyeri, Kenya, was found hanging on a tree. He had commited suicide because he had no enough fund to keep him suviving. Maybe he saw that death was the only way to pay all his problems and never face them again.


 * You taught me language, and my profit on 't is I know how to curse : I think that this quote is directed to people who don’t appreciate what others do for them. They are given knowledge, saved out of trouble, cared for, but all they do, is to show disrespect. For example, mom prepares a very delicious meal but all I do is to say, “ I __don’t like__ this food. It’s so salty, sugary e.t.c ” Just imagine, mother took all her energy and effort required to prepare the meal yet there you are not liking it and telling it to her. This is a very disgracing thing that happen in our daily life. It brings our friends down and makes them feel neglated. I therefore think that this is the reason as to why Shakespeare used this quote in one of his plays beause it really impacts our social engagement.

__ Setting the stage __ Ladies and gentlemen! This play is all about a group of people known as the Cahtos. The Cahtos are very upset by the death of their leader. They have looked for all the solution to do but only found that revenge is the best action and the only solution to take. Now you find that they are really determined to take revenge but before they do so, there are lots of problems and troubles they undergo. What are the problems? How do they face them and where? Let’s find out!!
 * Hell is empty and all the devils are here: When this quote is mentioned, I think of all the people around the world. The “hell” in this matter, is the world. And the “devils” are humans or people. This means that the world is full of bad peoples who always want others harm. The world is free for whoever wants to join the bad group. With this, there are so many devils in this world. For example, Osama Bin Laden is a real disaster to the world. He’s left many to be orphans, killed many and also damaged many. This is a good example of a devil who roams in his hell. The question is, I we really going to let the world become hell?

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