Monday, October 1, 2012
Prospero's Plans
I think that Prospero's goals in the beginning were very step by step because after he stranded everyone on the island he did each and everything in sequence. He first used Ariel to shipwreck the boat and strand everyone unharmed. Then he made his daughter fall in love with the future king. This makes it very clear to me that his intentions were to first better himself by taking revenge on his brother, Antonio, who stranded Prospero and his daughter on the island, and second to better his daughter by magically making her and the future king to fall in love. I thought Prospero executed his plans very well because both of the things he wanted to happen fell into his plan and ended up happening throughout the play.
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I feel that you raise some very good points in this post. I also think that you could have included more examples instead of just two. One example that you could have included would be how he stuck to his plan by not injuring any of the people through the whole play. This blog post did make me think about the play in a new way so for that I would say that this is a good post.
ReplyDeleteI do agree that his two main agendas were to take revenge on his brother Antonio, and to make his daughter's future happy by her marriage to Ferdinand the future king. However, I do think his plan changed towards the end of the play when he decides not to harm any of the people who have wronged him, even though he has complete power to do whatever he wants with them. I think this is an interesting point of the play to be thought about. I personally think he does not hard them because his daughter is happy, and he is going to die soon, so it is just in his good nature to be forgiving.
ReplyDeleteI believe that by the end of the play Prospero's plan of revenge had morphed into a plan to preserve Miranda's happiness with Ferdinand. It seemed like all of his schemes were building up to one final, grand act of revenge. However, by the end he seemed at peace without completing such an act. I believe that by the end of the play he simply wanted to do what was best for Miranda, who had to live such a difficult childhood.
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