ESSAY CEMETERY

THEMES/INTERESTING THINGS Evoking Fate -           " Stand fast, good Fate, to his hanging: make the rope of his destiny our cable" -           " By accident most strange, bountiful Fortune, Now my dear lady, hath mine enemies Brought to this shore; " Usurpation of rulers and the seizing of power: -           Usurpation of Prospero by Antonio and Alonso -           Plan to usurp Alonso by Antonio and Sebastian Revenge -           "By accident most strange, bountiful Fortune, Now my dear lady, hath mine enemies Brought to this shore; " Noble birth doesn’t necessitate gentility: -           " To think but nobly of my grandmother: Good wombs have borne bad sons" Education as more valuable than nobility -           "Knowing I loved my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom. " -           " Me, poor man, my library Was dukedom large enou

CHARACTERS The shipwrecked: Alonso - King of Naples, father of Ferdinand (conspired with Antonio) Ferdinand - Prince of Naples, falls in love with Miranda Sebastian - brother of Alonso, also conspired with Antonio against Prospero Antonio - brother of Prospero, Duke of Milan after usurping Prospero (conspired with Alonso) Gonzalo - leaves Miranda and Prospero supplies, enabling their survival Stephano - friend of Trinculo Trinculo - friend of Stephano, thought to be a spirit by Caliban ---- Claribel - Alonso's daughter, married to the Prince of Tunis Miranda - Prospero's daughter, falls in love with Ferdinand Prospero - former Duke of Milan Ariel - Prospero's familiar spirit, freed by Prospero after being trapped in a tree by Sycorax Sycorax - a witch who trapped Ariel in a tree, now dead Caliban - Prospero's servant, son of Sycorax. Proposes to kill Prospero and make Stephano king of the island SUMMARY Act I, Scene I- on a boa