Paternal power is an important theme in Shakespeare’s play, The Tempest. Similar to most fathers, Prospero tends to his daughter’s needs and will go to any length to ensure she is secure and well protected. However, an important question to consider is what marks the line between the binding of protection and love and limiting...
At the beginning of the play a storm breaks out in the Mediterranean Sea. Alonso and members of his court are passengers on the ship that is destroyed in the huge storm. Everyone on the ship is separated in the water, but they all find safety on a seemingly deserted island. The island they...
The Tempest and Hag-Seed have a variety of themes but power, politics, and revenge stand out. The three issues go hand in hand and the authors had a particular interest in them and the description of the portrayal of the three themes forms the basis of this analysis. In Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Prospero and Antonio’s...
The concept of textual conversations is greatly explored throughout both Margaret Atwood’s Hag-seed and the text of its origins, William Shakespeare’s The Tempest. One textual conversation that is evident in both texts is the idea of freedom and imprisonment, both metaphorical and literal. This is further explored through the main protagonists of Prospero from The...
The Tempest, written by William Shakespeare, is a play that touches on aspects of Racism. Racism is the belief that characteristics and abilities can be attributed to people simply on the basis of their race and that some racial groups are superior to others. Racism and discrimination have been used as powerful weapons for encouraging...
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The characters and motifs of these texts do not change; rather, they are reshaped to align with the author’s context, which ultimately shapes their creative decision. Shakespeare’s play The Tempest (1611) makes note of the Elizabethan interest of exploration, as well as ideas still relevant to the current world. This is seen in Margaret Atwood’s...
This essay aims to discuss the postcolonial thoughts in Shakespeare’s play The Tempest. I tried to explore the postcolonial features in the play according to Orientalism and Imperialism definition by Edward Said. In general, Imperialism and Orientalism are the ideas presented by European culture to continue their control over non-Western societies. I explained how the...
Language, power, and politics have thrived for many years as closely linked aspects of the human civilization, tortuously interlaced through the expatriate and decolonization grandiloquence and literary compositions. Famous authors and composers of literary works such as Shakespeare have embraced language as a tool important in incarceration and liberation, depending on whether or not an...
Theatre is vital to the human experience, for centuries, the theatre has been utilized as a source of entertainment to recount stories and messages. It enables humankind to identify with the person, them-self by perceiving how people respond to one another upon the stage. As said by Trove Jansson “A theatre is the most important...
An understanding of the context in literary texts is fundamental in order to further appreciate the connections and references created. It can be argued that Margaret Atwood’s postmodern text ‘Hag-Seed’ (2016), is a post-modern appropriation of William Shakespeare’s seminal text, ‘The Tempest’ (1611). Atwood’s reinterpretation aids in illuminating Shakespeare’s underlying themes by reimagining them for...