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I. The Tempest, in the First Act, relates the story of a tricky situation among
their main characters. Others, who are inside a ship (which is carrying King Alonso of Naples and his entourage) are in a badly storm which condemns them to arrive in an island in the worst conditions. As the Boatswain tries to keep the boat afloat, the King and two of his hot-headed men, Antonio and Sebastian, come on deck to bark orders at the crew. The men become enraged, verbally assaulting the boatswain as he tries to regain control of the steering. Only the King's counsellor, Gonzalo, remains calm and collected as the ferocious wind splits the ship in half.
II. (^) Prospero is the right duke of Milan, being intellectual, a good student
of Arts… he’s the father of Miranda, her girl who represents the virtue of a princess. Ferdinand, on the other hand, is the Alonso’s son, and fell in love with Miranda at first sight. Ariel, the spirit of the air, is being slaved by Prospero, and he gets whatever he wants from Ariel, as in Act I, where did he provoke huge waves and a worse storm to the ship.
III. The scene, which is basically included in the beginning, including the
framework of the ship, relates how the importance of having a King inside a huge storm like this is null. ‘’What care these roares for the name of the King?’’
IV. The first scene, as the title of Shakespeare’s work, The Tempest, is
called like that because of the conflict which the characters have on themselves. It is easy to determine the personality of those roles from a psychological point of view, but also because of the context in which the play is enrolled.
V. This ivy is compared with the dukedom which Prospero had before
until his brother usurped the kingdom and everything linked to this place.
VI. Prospero, as a perfect humanist, used his time to learn and get
habilities to explore and knowledge, this is, to fed his mind with new concepts. After all, he was a student and that’s why he retired from the Kingdom to achieve new goals in this Humanist way.
VII. In this part, Prospero is telling his daughter how did the rest of people
from the Kingdom did not kill them, and how they were quit in a ship, in an exile. The rats, who were obviously those who didn’t want them in the dukedom, prepared a kind of small boat which didn’t possessed any mast o r any oars.
VIII. Above this situation, Prospero keeps telling how he, with the help of
Gonzalo, man who founded in the island, provided him a good
selection of books in the island with the main objective to go ahead, even in the wreck that him and his daughter experimented, with his capacity of knowledge and attention to books, pieces of information and study guides he loved.
IX. Ariel is a fairy, or a nymph who seems to represent human imagination and controls the Air Spirit. In the play Ariel is a theatrical device which enables the hero Prospero to have remote control over his enemies. It is Ariel who sinks the ship in where the mariners and Alonso, with more characters. On the other hand, he allusion of Neptune in The Tempest is a the reference to the Roman god. These men believed that the Gods controlled all aspects of the universe. Shakespeare is showing the Neptune's strength and his control of the ocean to make the boast experience violent waves. The reference to the trident is the what Neptune uses to create the waves. This refers to Prospero, who had the power to generate the storm and create magic. X. Ariel talks about the consequences that the storm which he created had effected to the mariners, but more precise to Alonso, Gonzalo, Sebastian, and Ferdinand, who became shipwrecked XI. Caliban, at this point of the act, talks about the revenge (at least what he gets in mind) which he would think about the dead of his mother, Sycorax (the owner of the island) and how the island was taken away from him. XII. Ferdinand takes part of this dialogue that he can be observed among him, Prospero, and Miranda, the princess, who fell in love with Ferdinand XIII. Miranda, taking part in here, defends the power of being honest and fair with the shipwreck which Ferdinand suffered, this situation, which took him to the position of both thanks to Ariel (to Miranda and Prospero) should have been positioned as a Goddess in Miranda, who possess the virtues of an authentic princess. XIV. Sycorax was the Caliban’s mother, as the sea is, it is told that she has blue eyes, maybe it’s the reflection of the power of Prospero to reach the inhabitant island which he possess with his daughter and Caliban, who has become a slave to him. XV. Setebos, mentioned by Caliban in the Act I, is a god worshipped by Sycorax in the work (buscar más info’ih) XVI. He’s abrupt because, from a point of view which could be considered moral, he has lost all what he had before. In my opinion, Prospero could be compared (not in a literary way) with Beowulf. He, as Beowulf, try to preserve the honour, and fight against the enemy. Although Beowulf had a ‘easier’ story, and Prospero did not, they’re close connected. Caliban, and also Sycorax, would be similar to Grendel’s mother and son. XVII.
