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How Prospero Uses Magic in Shakespeares The Tempest
Title: How Prospero Uses Magic in Shakespeares The Tempest
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 985 | Pages: 4.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
How Prospero Uses Magic in Shakespeares The Tempest
How does Prospero use magic in “The Tempest” and how does he use it to try and create an ideal society?
Through the use of his magic, Prospero seeks to surpass worldly values and create a utopia, or ideal society. This becomes evident in how Shakespeare portrays the innocence of Ferdinand and Miranda. He insists that Ferdinand not “Break her virgin knot before All sanctimonious ceremonies may.”(Act 4, Scene 1) Prospero’s seeking to create an …showed first 75 words of 985 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 985 total…uses Prospero’s magic as tool to create a perfect world. In the end of the play when Prospero has achieved his goal he gives up the craft of magic to go live in the perfect world that he created.
Works Cited
D.G. James (1967). Dream of Prospero. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
David L. Hirst (1984). The Tempest, text and performance. London: Macmillan Publishers.
Emma Brogway Wagener (1933). The Tempest, an Allegorical interpretation Yellow Springs, Ohio: McGraw-Antioch Press.
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