1/6/2024 0 Comments The tempest act 1 scene 2Antonio, meanwhile, was busy learning how to run Milan, but also making all the right friends in all the right places. He trusted his brother so much that he let him run the affairs of state while Prospero closeted himself away in his library. Prospero was devoted to the study of magic. Basically, the story goes like this: Prospero has a brother, Antonio, whom he used to love and trust.The story that follows is long, and Prospero keeps poking Miranda to stay awake (imagine we're doing the same to you, except in a non-weird, non-Facebook way).Miranda asks whether a blessing or curse brought them to the island.Didn't Perdita learn something similar about herself in The Winter's Tale?) So yes, Prospero was a Duke and Miranda a princess. Prospero replies that, to the best of his knowledge, he was the only one sleeping with Miranda's mother. Miranda is shocked to hear the news, and asks if Prospero isn't really her father. Twelve years ago, Miranda was a princess and her father was the Duke of Milan.Miranda doesn't remember how she and her father came to the island, so Prospero tells her the long story, which we now sum up for you: This surprises Prospero, because she was only three years old then, but she clearly remembers that she used to have four or five women that took care of her. He asks if she remembers a time before they were on the island, and she says yes.Prospero says the storm is a good occasion for him to reveal their family secret to her, which he's often started telling her but never finished.He assures his daughter that everyone from the ship is safe, and that he only did it for her (which she'll learn more about later). Miranda saw the ship sink and asks her father if he created the storm, cluing us in to the fact that Prospero has powerful magic, which they both call "art." Prospero doesn't deny he made the tempest, but instead says there was no harm done. If you read the "Names of the Actors," you know that Prospero is the "rightful Duke of Milan, usurped by his brother Antonio." If you didn't know this key piece of information, Prospero just seems to be an average old guy stranded with his daughter on a deserted island.
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