One of the key tools to Caliban’s inferior stature is his ability to understand the language of the Europeans’, which Prospero had taught him. Prospero uses his magic negatively against Caliban, which forces fear and obedience from Caliban. This magic is similar to the British being much more advanced in weapon technology than the natives in Africa. Caliban curses his master Prospero and finds comfort in being a new slave of Trinculo and Stephano, two Europeans who were shipwrecked due to a tempest and found refuge on the island. The scenes that involve Caliban all have ties to slavery and England’s rule in Africa.
Although, this could be viewed as justice for him and his daughter being unlawfully marooned on the island and stripped of his dukedom. This act could be justified by this. On the other hand, Faustus’ tricks are never justified and do not contain any real meaning. He uses is 24 years wastefully, traveling the world and not fulfilling any of his original ambitions he wanted to fulfil with his use of power granted by the devil. In act three scene one, him and Mephostophilis travel to Rome to play a tedious trick against the Pope.
The battle was between the only good left on the island (represented by Ralph) and the evil of dictatorship. The boys had turned into lawless animals, and were going crazy. The boys were so uncivilized, one boy forgot his own name. “Percival Wemys Madison sought in his head for an incantation that had faded clean away”. Ralph had tried to have a list of names, but Jack didn’t even bother.
His willingness to slaughter the man for so weak a reason is frightening though. It helps to show how twisted Chillingworth truly is. During the end of the novel though, Dimmesdale thwarts Chillingworth’s revenge plot by telling the Puritan community how he had an affair with Hester. This act absolutely ruins Chillingworth because he no longer possesses the power over Dimmesdale. All the horrible acts he had done in the past were undone, because Dimmesdale "Hast escaped me!"(228).
Therefore my son i' th' ooze is bedded; and I'll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded and with him there lie mudded." He is responding to the Harpy the way Prospero intended him to which shows that Prospero is in control of him. The Tempest is a very good play to demonstrate the monstrosity of slavery in society. The play teaches lessons about slavery, and about classes of people, and how they react to their
The duo are nothing but con artists whose antics become progressively worse as they travel putting themselves as well Huck and Jim at risk of being caught or even killed. To continue the theme of the belittlement of the family, the duke and dauphine devise a scam to steal everything from the grieving Wilks family. It is shameful how easy it is to swindle the family. As with the epitome of a dysfunctional family, Huck chooses to stop the scam that will leave the Wilks girls with no home, but he still does not betray the Duke and Dauphin and keeps their secrets. Huck thought that he and Jim had escaped the two scammers but they showed up at the raft, and Huck “wilted right down onto the planks, then, and give up” (241).
His morality is revealed when he questions Fortinbras’ motives – is it right to allow so many men to die when fighting for a worthless piece of land? Hamlet’s passion for revenge is resurrected by the sight of the troops and he vows to take action – ‘My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth.’ The state of Denmark is in chaos (because the wrong king is on the throne) and this manifests itself through the mini rebellion on the castle with the return of Laertes. Laertes is Hamlet’s best foil in the play. Now that each of them has a father to avenge the contrast between the pair reaches its peak. Laertes has no time for thoughts or moral reflection; he is hard set on revenge.
But that freedom can be dangerous because people act and think like children, are selfish and easily manipulated. This is fertile ground for evil which, if allowed to take root can destroy everything and shatter democracy, the only way to prevent this is by rules, which on the island there were none. - Lord of the Flies does indicate the theme – Power because Lord of the Flies is the evil in each of the boys and all that evil made them want to be in power and the way for some of them to do that was to kill the
Identify and examine the range of dramatic methods used by Shakespeare to explore the theme of enslavement in ‘The Tempest’ In my opinion it is evident that in William Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’ there is a main theme of slavery which takes place within the island. Firstly, an example would be Prospero’s treatment of Caliban, the son of Sycorax who he has taken as a slave on the island. Prospero treats Caliban with very little respect and of little importance. The method of character interaction is shown between Prospero and Caliban when Prospero says; “What, ho! Slave!
/ Not so happy yet much happier. / Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none. / So all hail, Macbeth and Banquo.”(19) These words put thought of usurpation in Macbeth’s head, and already his greed was taking over. Banquo gives fair warning to Macbeth about caution over the words, stating “The intstruments of darkness tell us truths, / Win us with honest trifles, to betray’s / In deepest consequence.” (23) But later, Banquo fell under the spell of greed, knowing his children would become Kings. “Thou hast it now—King, Cawdor, Glamis, all / As the Wëird Women promised, and I fear / Thou played’st most foully for ‘t.