Prospero's Daughter

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However, Prospero’s brother, Antonio, betrayed him and took his title, banishing him to live on an island with his daughter Miranda.

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However, when Caliban proved himself irresponsible and a threat to Miranda, Prospero confined Caliban to one part of the island. The ship is bringing Alonso, King of Naples, and his guests back from his daughter’s wedding in Algiers.Melon Cauliflower, by New Zealand playwright Tom McCrory, is about a man Prospero, in his late sixties, who struggles to come to terms with the death of his wife and has mistreated his daughter Miranda. The traits that make her the pinnacle of femininity are her innocence and vulnerability, and these traits allow her to be readily manipulated first by her father then Ferdinand. When Prospero tests Ferdinand, by making him do physical tasks, she offers to do some of the work herself. At the end of the play, when Prospero has achieved everything he wanted with Ariel’s help, he says goodbye to Ariel and sets him free.

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Critic Jessica Slights creates claims that although many declare that Miranda only reflects the image of an obedient and subservient woman; she argues Miranda's character is independent.The offspring of the witch Sycorax, Caliban was formerly treated generously by Prospero, who arrived on Caliban’s island twelve years earlier, teaching him to speak Prospero’s own language and even giving Caliban wine to drink. Many people also believed in folklore , so the character of Ariel, who is a sprite, would have seemed normal to them. Throughout the course of the play, Miranda acts as a foil to Prospero's more violent instincts and serves as a sounding board to move the play's plot further. However, some critics argue that those same "feminine" traits enable her to be a strong female presence with important effects on the play's outcome.

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Two more shipwrecked passengers, Trinculo, a jester , and Stephano, a butler, appear and give Caliban alcohol. Lorie Leininger, discussed in the previous section, argues that Miranda is part of a group subjugated by colonialism due to her gender, but as far as direct connections to European colonisation overseas, Miranda does not connect directly to the majority of postcolonial analyses. Using magic, he is able to control the movements and all the actions of the other characters, which allows him not only to be the central character but also the actual author of the plot of the play.Miranda's influence is what dulls the worst of her father's anger; Prospero cites her as being his reason for living after their initial banishment and he informs her that everything he does is "in care" of her.