Loss

• Prospero: LOSS of Dukedom

  Thy false uncle...new created

  The creatures that were mine...set all hearts i'th'state

  To what tune pleased his ear, that now he was

  The ivy which had hid my princely trunk,

  And sucked my verdure out on't...'
• Prospero: 'LOSS of dukedom

  ...in my false brother

  Awaked an evil nature, and my trust,

  Like a good parent, did beget of him

  A falsehood in its contrary as great

  As my trust was, which had indeed no limit,

  A confidence sans bound.'
• Calipar: 'This island's mine by Sycorax, my mother,

  Which thou tak'st from me.'
• • : 'Sir, you may thank yourself for this great loss,

  That would not bless our Europe with your daughter,

  But rather lose her to an African,'
• Prospero: 'But this rough magic

  I here abjure...I'll break my staff,

  Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,

  And deeper than ever did plummet sound

  I'll drown my book.'
• The plot of The Tempest


  1. Prospero seeking to restore his status as Duke of Milan

  2. Driven by loss of natural order on the island

  3. Explores loss of liberty, control and childhood innocence
• By the end of the play


  The natural order is restored
• Important things to Prospero


  • Magic
  • Right of kings / Great chain of being
• Prospero: '"Who cares these roarers for the name of the king? The King and Prince at prayers, let's assist them, for our case is as theirs."'
• Prospero


  Was the Duke of Milan
• Caliban


  • Prince of power
  • Slave on the island
  • Loss of liberty
• Ariel


  • Imprisoned by Sycorax
  • Free before Sycorax
• Prospero gives up/loses his magic and control


  Restores the natural order
• Prospero


  Breaks his staff and drowns his book
• Miranda and Milan


  Reconciled
• Prospero gives up a third of his life
• Restored Great Chain of Being
• Happy ending, expected in a romance play