The Nature of Shakespeare's “The Tempest”

Introduction

Shakespeare is one, if not the greatest, poets to have walked the earth. With his expansive description and immense imagination, it's not hard to find yourself lost in one or more of his poems or short story's. In lost meaning, overwhelmed by brilliance and mastermind, you find yourself wanting to read more, also in following some of the old language. An example of Shakespeare's brilliance is the short story “The Tempest”. In this short story, Shakespeare takes the natural world and try has to manipulate it with civilization, giving mankind the authority to control nature. By doing this, he is portraying the struggle in between economical and personal gain.

Discussion and analysis

It emphasized that throughout the period of increasing importance given to the compulsory literature, applied with no less intensity to the drama. The "rules of art" consisted enforced mainly on the idea of verisimilitude, in the classical sense of decorum (each character should behave according to social rank), in matching style to the subject (among the three attainable levels: lyric, epic or tragic and comic or satirical) and, finally, in the "three unities" of action, time and place. This policy based on Aristotle's Poetics, which became a canonical text for literary aesthetics unavoidable. However, while in France the rules had an increasingly imperative character, both in Spain and Italy were only respected but little heeded, and England was almost entirely ignored.

Using his characters, he is criticizing civilization for its way of imposing on the nature and corruption towards the natural world. In this essay, we will break down the characters Prospero, Ariel, and Caliban, and their significance in the role of nature and, how they are resembled within Shakespeare's play “The Tempest” (Bowling, 1951, 203-9).

His work

The Tempest is a romantic tragedy like many of Shakespeare's historical tragedies; the play centers itself around a violent transferable of power. It is thought that The Tempest is the only play by Shakespeare in which the deposed not only survive, but also return, forcibly, to power. The engine of this play is revenge and in the end, though he loses his daughter, Prospero regains Milan. Caliban regains his island. Ariel's work has set her free. She disappears into the exact air. Miranda gets love and that is no small thing in this brave new world.

The Tempest and Influence of Nature

The plot line of The Tempest is a complex thing, filled with the tragedy of revenge, with romance, and comedy. The Tempest is a tragicomedy in five acts written by William Shakespeare and founded in 1611. Prospero will forfeit his daughter to the world. Though she will marry royalty, Prospero will never again watch as she falls asleep, stirs in dreams, or gasps in surprise at some new thing.

The driving energy of the play lies in the transitions. At the end of act four, for example, Shakespeare sends dogs after caliban and company, thereby contrasting the beautiful steamy of the previous scenes with a very noticeable violence. The dogs clear the ...