Prospero's Relationship with other Characters in

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Prospero’s Relationship with other Characters in “The Tempest”.

        Prospero is a multifaceted character; he behaves differently towards all of the characters. In this essay I am going to describe Prospero’s Relationship with the main Characters.

 is one of Shakespeare’s more enigmatic protagonists. He is a sympathetic character in that he was wronged by his usurping brother, but his absolute power over the other characters and his overwrought speeches make him difficult to like. In our first glimpse of him, he appears puffed up and self-important, and his repeated insistence that , his “loved one”, pay attention suggest that his story is boring her. Once Prospero moves on to a subject other than his absorption in the pursuit of knowledge, Miranda’s attention is riveted. Prospero is very loving towards his daughter. He settles her when she is worried about the “brave vessel, who had no doubt some noble creature in her” by saying “tell your piteous heart there’s no harm done”. He is trying to comfort her saying nobody got hurt. Prospero cares greatly for Miranda in everyway possible: “I have done nothing but in care of thee”. She is the only thing he has left, apart from his books. She is his dear one: “Thee my dear one, thee my daughter”.

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Prospero is very protective over Miranda, having surveyed Ferdinand closely to make sure he was good enough for his Daughter. Prospero was very vicious towards Ferdinand saying things like: “I’ll manacle thy neck and feet together”. After he has successfully endured the testing of his love for Miranda to Prospero, he practically talks to him with open arms: “Then as a gift, and thine own acquisition Worthingly purchased, take my daughter”.

Prospero has a very close relationship with someone else on the Island, Ariel. Ariel is a servant to Prospero as he released him from the long imprisonment at ...

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