Next, Prospero stages a masque to celebrate the young couple's betrothal, with goddesses and nymphs entertaining the couple with singing and dancing. Meanwhile, Prospero has kept Ferdinand busy and has forbidden Miranda to speak to him, but the two still find time to meet and declare their love, which is actually what Prospero has planned. Ariel is listening, however, and reports the plot to Prospero. While drinking, Caliban hatches a plot to murder Prospero and enrolls his two new acquaintances as accomplices. Stefano has come ashore in a wine cask, and soon Caliban, Trinculo, and Stefano are drunk. Trinculo and Stefano each stumble upon Caliban, and each immediately sees a way to make money by exhibiting Caliban as a monster recovered from this uninhabited island. This plot to murder Alonso is similar to Antonio's plot against his own brother, Prospero, 12 years earlier.Īnother part of the royal party - the court jester and the butler - has also come ashore. Antonio easily convinces Sebastian that Sebastian should murder his brother and seize the throne for himself. Antonio, Prospero's younger brother, has also been washed ashore with the king's younger brother, Sebastian. Alonso fears that Ferdinand is dead and grieves for the loss of his son. Meanwhile, Alonso, the king of Naples, and the rest of his party have come ashore on another part of the island. The king's son, Ferdinand, is brought to Prospero, where he sees Miranda, and the two fall instantly in love. Soon the royal party from the ship is cast ashore and separated into three groups. Caliban is a natural man, uncivilized and wishing only to have his island returned to him to that he can live alone in peace. The last inhabitant of the island is the child of Sycorax and the devil: Caliban, whom Prospero has enslaved.
The tempest free#
Ariel wishes to be free and his freedom has been promised within two days. Upon his arrival, Prospero rescued a sprite, Ariel, who had been imprisoned by the witch Sycorax. Miraculously, they both survived and arrived safely on this island, where Prospero learned to control the magic that he now uses to manipulate everyone on the island. Twelve years earlier, Prospero and Miranda were put out to sea in little more than a raft.
The story Prospero relates is that he is the rightful Duke of Milan and that his younger brother, Antonio, betrayed him, seizing his title and property. Prospero has created the storm with magic, and he explains that his enemies are on board the ship. On land, Prospero and his daughter, Miranda, watch the storm envelop the ship.
The Tempest opens in the midst of a storm, as a ship containing the king of Naples and his party struggles to stay afloat.
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