The Tempest Summarized

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Prospero’s plan is working

Prospero interrupts Ferdinand and Miranda’s moment

**Miranda refers Caliban as a man

Miranda says Ferdinand can’t be bad because he is handsome

Ferdinand draws his sword on Prospero so Prospero puts a spell on him to make him sleep

Miranda pleads for Ferdinand telling Prospero to stop

Gonzalo, Antonio and Stephano making fun of the king

Alonso mournes because he thought he lost his son in the shipwreck

Gonzalo says “if I were king no sovereignty

*Treason to the king

*King is lacking power in the play

Ariel puts Gonzalo and The king to sleep while Stephano and Antonio stays awake and guard

Ariel Whispers to Stephano and Antonio ears telling Stephano to kill the king and Antonio to kill his friend

Both draws their sword and were about to do it but Gonzalo wakes and ask them what they were doing

*Stephano and Antonio panic and tells lies of lions and refers themselves and monsters

Caliban thinks Trinculo as a spirit so he hides

Stephano comes in drunk

Caliban is found and offers Trinculo and Stephano anything on the island

Ferdinand is a slave doing Caliban job

Miranda takes over and starts carrying logs

*This tells you that Miranda wasn’t raised correctly

**Miranda contradicts herself by saying she cannot call Caliban a man

Miranda ask Ferdinand do you love me

Then Miranda ask my husband then?

Ferdinand agrees to both

Caliban divides the power of Trinculo and Stephano saying one of them is stronger than the other, thus making the 2 turn against each other

Caliban then begins to be very descriptive on how to kill Prospero saying he is the same as me if you take away his books

Who is Caliban? What evidence do you have?

Caliban is one of the main antagonists in The Tempest

He is the human of the witch Sycorax

Caliban is a slave (1.2.344)

Caliban acknowledges Prospero’s power (2.2.187)

Miranda and Prospero taught him language

Stephano and Trinculo refers Caliban has Monester (2.2.187)

Caliban knows the island very well (1.1.337-8)

Caliban is born on the island (1.2.282)

Caliban hates Prospero and hates Ariel for torturing him

Caliban’s duty is to chop wood the whole day to provide firewood for Prospero and Miranda