William Shakespeare 's Romeo And Juliet

SAMPSON A dog of that house shall move me to stand. I will take the wall of any man or maid of Montague’s.

Young lovers defy their families’ long-established vendetta and jeopardize all they have to continue their relationship. The violent commotion between the two lovers, Romeo and Juliet, finally bring peace to their feuding families, with their own death. Like with many suicide cases, there are challenges and decisions being made that lead up to this decision. Often times, we question who contributed to the suicide. Regardless, others argue that Romeo and Juliet should be held accountable for their ultimate decision. Then again, there is no definite reason to assign fault to Romeo and Juliet. Not only are their brains not fully developed, but pressures from outside forces caused such stress within the relationship.

This is best seen in act four, when Prospero gave Ferdinand his blessing to have Miranda’s hand in marriage while then going on to have the spirits perform for them. In the midst of this performance done by Iris, Juno, and Ceres, Prospero remembers that Caliban is still out there leading a conspiracy against his life and banishes them away. He startles Ferdinand and Miranda, to which he replies with, “You do look, my son, in a moved sort, as if you were dismay'd: be cheerful, sir.”, in an attempt to calm down from what Ferdinand called “some passion”. In this portion, Prospero seems to be redirecting the situation onto Ferdinand, saying something like that he was the one who seemed most troubled and should now just be happy. This marks Prospero turning point into an attempt at a peaceful and philosophical discussion on the nature of this existence. He continues on by stating that “Our revels now are ended. These our actors, as I foretold you, were

Love is like a flame, it provides you with warmth, but too much of it can also burn you. Such is the plot of the play, Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. It is a tragedy about two lovers, Romeo and Juliet, who unfortunately, belong to families who bear an ancient grudge against each other. In the play, Romeo and Juliet fall in love and quickly decide to marry each other. At the end, Romeo and Juliet’s decisions cause their untimely death, but in reality, there were other people who also contributed to the lover’s death. Friar Laurence, the Nurse and Lord Capulet are responsible for the tragic deaths of Romeo and Juliet.

Throughout the play, Prospero is a powerful man and controller. Before Prospero landed on the island, his devotion to the study of magic got him into trouble. While Prospero's nose was buried into his studies, his brother Antonio managed to steal the title as "Duke of Milan" and get him thrown out of Italy. In (1.2.150-156), Prospero explains to Miranda that one night his brother Antonio and an army got rid of Prospero by kidnapping him. Even before Prospero was physically isolated

Shakespeare is regarded as a playwright for all times because he deals with themes that are universal to humans across times. Themes such as ‘love as a cause of violence’ and ‘fate’ are encountered today and this is evident in Bernstein and Sondheim’s Westside Story and Romeo and Juliet despite the 600years difference.

Magic gives Prospero incredible power which he uses to his advantage, even though Ariel is one of Prospero’s most trusted and loyal friends, Prospero does not fil to mention the time Sycorax deceived Ariel by locking him the tree and freeing him, therefore Ariel has been in Prospero’s debt for a long time, which is similar to Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus, in which Faustus is in the devil’s debt in return for power as he soons has to give away his soul, therefore the theme of trickery is common as Prospero blackmails Ariel into being his servant, “Imprisoned thou didst painfully remain a dozen years”.

From when Prospero first “raised the tempest (Shakespeare 71),” and conjured the storm to helping him hold Alonso and his companions captive, we can clearly see in Ariel’s case that he adores Prospero for freeing him and holds a very loving son-father relationship with Prospero. These caring attributes are very scarce in the other majority of the characters such as Antonio, Stephano and Caliban (who only wish to murder and rob Prospero of his power) and Ariel's attitude which he has for Prospero only makes that case even more evidently obvious. When Ariel gives the word on Alonso and his partners in crime, he states that “our (his and Prospero’s) charm so strongly works 'em that if you now beheld them, your affections would become tender” (Shakespeare 71). He states that Prospero’s effect on the three were so ominous that if he saw them, even he, in all of his power and malice, would be compelled to sympathetic tears. We are duly noted that Ariel is a spirit who is able to possess a very human and fatherly concern for others despite being of nonhuman

However, after being highly controlling and scheming for the majority of the play, Prospero begins to forgive and recognize his actions of trying to “play god” (especially in setting up his daughter for marriage) are wrong, relinquishing his power in the final scene—“Now my charms are all o'erthrown/ And what strength I have’s mine own/ Which is

The play The Tempest centres on Prospero’s thirst for revenge and the actions he takes to achieve it. Some may argue that Prospero’s actions are morally justified because of the wrongs done to him in the past, or that he is a good man at heart, however the way he goes about his actions are unnecessary. I believe that until his final decisions he is a bitter, revenge thirsty man who manipulates others to get what he wants. From the very beginning of the play he is shown as cruel and power-hungry; he abandons his duty as Duke of Milan (which is the cause of all his problems), manipulates the other inhabitants of the island and his only goal is to regain the authority he lost. Prospero manipulates Ariel and Caliban into being his slaves by using threats and his superiority to control them.

In the context of this paper I intend to argue that within the setting of the play Prospero does possess magic and uses it much throughout

Prospero experiences sea change at the end of the play when he states that “my charms are all o’erthrown, And what strength I have mine’s own, Which is most faint” (V.i.1-3). Prospero realizes that his powers are weak and that it is time to pass his dukedom to Ferdinand and Miranda. He goes through sea change when he forgives his enemies, releases Ariel, and relinquishes his magic

Also, throughout the play Prospero?s anger is shown, for example, late in the fourth act, Prospero interrupts the spirits' pleasant masque when he's suddenly overcome with rage at the thought of Caliban's plot against him. Then, early in Act V, he admits to Ariel that he can only forgive his enemies by letting his "nobler reason" overcome his ?fury." This fury, more than any other

He sets his traitor brother up for a big face off, yet in the end he decides “the rarer action is in virtue than on vengeance” (5.1.27), and doesn’t complete his plans. At this point, it can be thought that the story of this man who gives up his “art” is highly relevant with Shakespeare’s own life as a playwright, especially when the fact that The Tempest is the last play he wrote without someone else’s collaboration is taken into account. He holds the power of changing his characters’ fate in his hands as a writer, but that doesn’t change the fact that he may lose control of his art (be it magic or rhetoric) from time to time. For instance, during the “wedding” scene of Miranda and Ferdinand (4.1.140), which is another remarkable example for Prospero/playwright theory with all the spirit actors, Prospero is seen to lose his focus and forget about the “threat” to his life. This incident can be interpreted as a similar

After that Prospero told her a story about betrayal, a story about him being the Duke of Milan and how he was betrayed by his own brother Antonio and his friend Alonso and how he and Miranda were exiled unjustly. After that Prospero as a learned and powerful man was able to take direct control of the island, he freed a trapped and tortured spirit known as Ariel and befriended the inhabitants such as Caliban. Prospero 'helped' Caliban, by trying to educate him and teaching him to communicate, in exchange Caliban helped Prospero to survive on the Island. But by taking over the island, Prospero was doing the same thing that happened to him as Duke of Milan, now Prospero himself had become the usurper. In this act of goodness Prospero had unknowingly shown his evil side.