Tempest A05

'Prospero's magic powers allow him to impose his will in situations he could not control otherwise.'

'Prospero bases his right to power on moral rather than territorial legitimacy Caliban cannot rule the island because he is not really human and cannot rule himself.'

'A deflowered flower would have tainted the family.'

'Europe's domestic and political arrangements depend on the compliance f its woman.'

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'He is every bit the oppressed native.'

'Jacobeans saw themselves as having a duty to civilise the natives.'

'Caliban has been exploited but in some respects he has brought his subjection upon himself.'

'For Prospero, the price of forgiveness, is the requirement to forgo his magic.'

'The strings of conscience then make Alonso subject himself to Prospero.'

‘the real power lies not with the playwright, but with the viewer, not with the imagination that creates the story, but with the imagination that receives it.’

‘It also requests forgiveness for the beneficent tyranny of creativity itself, in which an author, like a Prospero, moves people at his will, controls the minds of others, creates situations to suit his aims, and arranges outcomes entirely in the service of his own idea of goodness or justice or beauty.’ .

'The island can be seen as an allegory examining the growth of the human spirit.'

'It's about the growth maturing and individuation of Prospero.'

'Ariel is conscious directed, civilised and ordered'

'We all need an Ariel and Caliban inside our psyche.'

'He is Prospero's id, he is a part of part of Prospero's unconscious control of the island.'

'Prospero is finally owning, acknowledging and taking responsibility for Caliban his shadow.'

'In his growth and individuation, he has taken a big step towards integrating his shadow within himself.'

'He no longer needs the imaginary representations, he has taken all necessary archetypes and integrated them within himself.'

'The island was a place f transformation, reconciliation, education and repentance.'

'He is not god unless it is the cruel anthropomorphic god of the early OLD TESTAMENT.'

'If Prospero is omniscient how could Caliban exist.'