Essays on The Tempest

Through the provocative textual conversations between the Shakespearean 1611 tragicomedy The Tempest; and Margaret Atwood’s 2016 postmodern novel appropriation Hag-seed, the evolving presence of internal and external imprisonment and its potential restorative power is explored. Shakespeare’s humanist perspective under the influences of the Jacobean era presents a more religious element, which prioritises the theme of...

What I find without a doubt the most interesting thing behind William Shakespeare’s play The Tempest, is that it’s much darker than the writers’ pinnacle, Romeo & Juliette; but to everyone’s surprise winds up being the one with a happy ending. Shakespeare doesn’t do that to us often, in fact all of his stories are...

The play The Tempest by William Shakespeare is about betrayal, magic, love, repentance, forgiveness, and acknowledgment. The play depicts Prospero’s journey of getting his dukedom back and marrying his daughter to the King of Naples’ son, Prince Ferdinand. The Tempest is full of symbols and one of them is Prospero’s books. When Prospero was betrayed...