Sycorax Essays

Throughout Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Prospero and Frankenstein either have power or want it. The power they attempt to and succeed in acquiring superhuman, divine power. Though it seems that they use this power in similar ways, which would lead one to expect similar consequences, Frankenstein has a tragic ending, whereas The Tempest ends more positively. Frankenstein assumes the role of God while Prospero tries to carry out God’s will using limited magic, making

Dissension from Imitation: Assessing René Girard’s “Myth and Ritual in Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream” One observation René Girard brings up is a presence of two plays, or types of play, under the name of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Girard leads into main misconception readers, critics, and the audience usually have when reading A Midsummer Night’s Dream. They believe that the play is one of Shakespeare’s weakest due to their insistence on any text they read or any object in their environment

In attempts to shelter children from a cruel and harsh world, parents often create a utopia in which their children can grow and flourish. This plan of perfection has flaws because children eventually grow up and develop into someone curious of the outside world and its magical wonders. A similar situation occurs in William Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Prospero arrives on a stranded island with his three-year-old daughter, Miranda. This causes him to want to make her life perfect and free of cruelty

Throughout his masterpiece Things Fall Apart, Achebe accentuates the African cultural existence through heteroglossia. The term heteroglossia was first created by the Russian philosopher and literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin. In his Dialogic Imagination, Bakhtin defines heteroglossia as "the internal stratification of any single national language into social dialects, characteristic group behavior, and professional jargons, generic languages […] language of the authorities, of various circles and of

The Theme of Nature and Civilization in The Tempest The Tempest, written by William Shakespeare, mostly takes place on a magical island Prospero got exiled to, but it shows a clear divide between nature and civilization. The play starts with Prospero and Miranda living in exile, and through this play, Prospero tries to go back to Milan, where he used to be the duke. When Alonso, the king of Naples, Antonio, the usurping Duke of Milan, and other nobles are caught in the tempest and arrive on the

The Tempest by William Shakespeare is projected to be written in 1610-1611 and is first performed in November 1611 and it is also believed to be the last play that Shakespeare has written alone. The play is largely engaged on the theme of power whether it be bad or good. Power is demonstrated in various ways in The Tempest, it can be seen as the characters desire power amongst each other, the power over slaves and men, the power of love and lastly the supernatural power of magic. These forms of power

“All children, except one, grow up.” The sentence you just read is the opening sentence of Peter Pan - a fictional novel by James Matthew Barrie. Peter Pan is a fantasy with many themes like growing up and motherhood. The main characters consist of Peter Pan, Wendy Darling, Tinker Bell, and Captain Hook. Most of the story takes place in Neverland in 1904. Barrie also wrote novels such as Half Hours and multiple plays. Throughout Peter Pan, the reader is taught different life lessons while enjoying

To represent the changing contexts of different time periods, characters and motifs are used to display the values of this time. The text The Tempest by Shakespeare and Hagseed by Margaret Atwood are two texts that weave the morals and beliefs of their time into the story. Through Caliban and the prisoners we can see how the concept of ‘the other’ reflects on the assumptions society makes about those who are different, as well as Atwood’s thoughts on the prison system. Prospero and Felix display

People tend to always want to be in control and have power over everything, but when evil sets in it becomes a tragic story just like "The Tempest". In the play "The Tempest", written by William Shakespeare, tells a story about struggle for power. A terrible storm wrecks a ship on what is thought to be a deserted island. On this island there are several people who do not discover each other till the end. In the midst of all of the chaos that is approaching, Prospero, knows everyone who is in the

Power is present in all role of the story and the character who symbolises it is Créon. But power of goods are omnipresent as well, represented by Antigone, and there is a confrontation between both of them. Following examples of passages of the book are presented to evince the presence of the authority and power in the play. Starting from the beginning, even if is not represented in the play, the first power conflict was between two brothers. Polynice betrayed his brother Eteocle when he did not

Kwame Nkrumah is known as a Ghanaian revolutionary. He was a politician, author, leader, and the first prime minister and president of Ghana, leading it to independence from Britain in 1957. He had a vision of how Africa could be united and work against imperialism while achieving a common goal of colonial freedom. In Towards Colonial Freedom, he delves straight into the topic of colonialism and how it affected Africa and his perception of African unity. Nkrumah starts off in his foreword discussing

Nobody is capable of changing the past. A person’s mistakes and the pain that they inflict on other people are permanent and irreversible. The potential to repair the damage lies by changing the future, not the past. Many characters in William Shakespeare’s play, King Lear, realize their mistakes by suffering, and attempt to correct them through good deeds. Lear’s experience with poverty helps him recognize his misconception of love and accept Cordelia’s forgiveness. Gloucester’s loss of sight

The responses that the audience apprehends, alters through the exploration of intertextual perspectives. These perspectives are shaped around the composer’s attitudes in respect to context. Likewise, the political treatise The Prince(1513) written by Nicolló Machiavelli, during the sixteenth century Italian renaissance and the tragic play Julius Caesar(1599) composed during the late 16th century Elizabethan era by William Shakespeare, highlight similar contextual values of Statecraft and the Corruption

with magical powers on a mostly uninhabited island who uses his powers to shipwreck the person who stole his dukedom, Antonio. Prospero lives on the island with his beautiful daughter, Miranda, the spirit Ariel, and the bastard son of the witch Sycorax, named

slavery, and one of them being the relationship between Sycorax and Ariel. The fact that she makes him her

Little is known about Sycorax from the play. She is briefly described as being the deceased mother of Caliban, who came to the island from her home in Algiers. She is said to be a powerful and evil witch, who was banished for being a threat to society. Prospero doesn’t go in depth

THE TEMPEST – SHAKESPEARE 1. How does Shakespeare indicate the level of chaos in the first scene of Act I? This opening scene certainly contains spectacle, in the form of the howling storm tossing the little ship about and threatening to kill the characters before the play has even begun. The play begins with a “noise of thunder and lightning”. The first word, “Boatswain!” immediately indicates that the scene is the deck of a ship, and the characters rush frantically in and out, often with no purpose

Ariel’s obedience to Prospero commands and wishes makes Ariel a great asset to Prospero throughout the play. After almost every command, Ariel addresses Prospero as superior and does the commands Prospero wishes. Examples of Ariel’s obedience can be seen when Ariel says “I will be correspondent to command” (Shakespeare I.ii.12), “My lord, it shall be done” (Shakespeare I.ii.13), “Ay, my commander” (Shakespeare IV.i.54), and “I’ll fetch them sir” (Shakespeare V.i.59). Ariel addresses Prospero in a

immersed in it, prisoners must "work" in order to restore freedom, “Thou best know’st What torment I did find thee in; thy groans Did make wolves howl, and penetrate the breasts Of ever-angry bears. It was a torment To lay upon the damn’d, which Sycorax Could not again undo. It was mine art, When I arriv’d and heard thee, that made gape The pine, and let thee out.” (Shakespeare, 1564-1616; 1958) It is very tempting to learn the physical freedom, selected Prospero in all, without exception, inhabitants

and ensures the total control over all aspects of his daughter live, taking the possibility to think freely and make decisions of her own. Furthermore, there is difference on how Prospero appoints Sycorax and Miranda. Both female characters, both suffered from the oppression. Prospero eliminated Sycorax and proved for himself what would happen to women who are not in the power of men. Notwithstanding the