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Shakespeare's The Tempest 4 The Supernatural 96 Views
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What makes Ariel and Caliban supernatural entities in Shakespeare's The Tempest ? Find out the role Prospero plays in each's characterization.
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Thank you We sneak in Shakespeare's plays the tempest The
- 00:08
supernatural lash shmoop which characters in the player supernatural entities
- 00:16
So ariel and caliban are both slaves technically but there
- 00:21
these two really different types of slaves ariel is much
- 00:24
more willing slave and quite importantly he's just treated well
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Where's Caliban is treated with total contempt by prospero and
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miranda and this is because his mother is a demonic
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figure Which person right a witch who has actually also
- 00:42
was responsible for imprisoning ariel at one point exactly so
- 00:46
he's from the bad stock right whereas aerials from the
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nice flighty stock right Right exactly And i think it's
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important that contemporary scholars have really said caliban isn't treated
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fairly This isn't an endorsement for just enslaving people who
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aren't like you it's really a look at how when
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you enslave people because of different they become these like
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terrible twisted creatures this is all i mean this is
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all prospero's fault no question about that Which characters in 00:01:21.519 --> [endTime] the player Supernatural entities
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