What was the tempest about?
The Tempest is set on a desert island. The wizardProspero and his daughter Miranda live there with Ariel, the sprite, Caliban, the monster-slave-thing, and other spirits. Prospero was once the duke of Milan, but his brother Antonio usurped the dukedom and banished with Miranda to the ocean, and they washed up on the island. Many years later, Alonso, the King of Naples and his son, Ferdinand, and brother Sebastian, and Antonio, and others of the court are shipwrecked on Prospero’s island. Prospero caused the tempest that wrecked them as revenge for banishing him, but his daughter Miranda begged him to right the wrong because she was merciful. It is all about what happens when Prospero and his enemies meet, Miranda falls in love, and Caliban attempts mutiny Its a great play.
