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A 3 page paper which examines the importance of magic and enchantment in Shakespeare’s The Tempest. No additional sources cited.
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daughter exist, abandoned, on an island. The story revolves around his attempting to seek revenge on those who took him from his seat of power and put him and his
daughter on the island for many years. A major player in this story is the element of magic and enchantment. The following paper examines the importance and the role of
magic and enchantment in Shakespeares The Tempest. Magic and Enchantment in The Tempest Magic/enchantment comes into play when a ship at sea, carrying Alonso, who is the king
of Naples, along with his brother Sebastian and his son Ferdinand, and two others; Gonzalo and Antonio, is taken over by a storm. The storm, however, is not really a
true storm but rather something that Prospero, the man stranded on the island by many of the people just stranded themselves, put into play to seek his revenge. He tells
his daughter, who believes that the men in the ocean have been killed, "Lend thy hand, And pluck my magic garment from me. So... Lie there, my art...The direful spectacle
of the wreck, which touchd The very virtue of compassion in thee, I have with such provision in mine art So safely ordered that there is no soul...Betid to any
creature in the vessel" (Shakespeare I ii). This indicates that he set the storm in motion and ensured no one was hurt in the process. It was done in order
to strand the major players of Prosperos demise in his domain so that he could seek his revenge on them. In this one sees how magic, used by Prospero, and
enchantment, protecting the men, lays the foundation for the entire play. Then the character of Ariel comes into play and the reader/viewer learns that Prospero once saved Ariel and
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