Drama Analysis

“The Tempest”
William Shakespears

Santa Sarasambhada
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Dita Yuandini
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Saddam Muhammad Unggul Nuswantoro
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 Summary
Major Conflict
Prospero, the duke of Milan and a powerful magician,
was banished from Italy and cast to sea by his usurping
brother, Antonio, and Alonso, the king of Naples. As the
play begin, Antonio and Alonso come under
Prospero's magic power as they sail past his island.

Rising Action
Prospero creates the tempest, causing his enemies' ship
to wreck and its passenger to be dispersed about the island
Climax
Alonso and his party stop to rest, and Prospero causes a
banquet to be set out before them. Just as they are about to
eat, Ariel appears in the ship of a harpy and accuses them of
their treachery against Prospero. Alonso is overwhelmed with
remorse.

Falling Action
Prospero brings Alonso and the other before him and
forgives them. Prospero invites Alonso and his company to
stay the night before everyone returns to Italy the next day,
where Prospero will reassume his dukedom.
 3 Major Plot Lines

• Romance - Prospero wants Miranda and Ferdinand to fall

in love, so he isolates Ferdinand of the rest of the
shipwrecked noblemen.
• Revenge - Prospero wants to regain his dukedom and
also teach Antonio and king Alonso a lesson, so he uses
Ariel to create illusions and manipulate the man.
• Drunken Conspirators - Stephano, Trinculo and Caliban
conspire to kill Prospero and take the island for their own.
This plot line creates comic relief.
 Character & Characterization
Prospero
Miranda
Ariel
Caliban
Ferdinand
Gonzalo
Alonso : King of Naples and father of Ferdinand
Antonio : Prospero's brother
Sebastian : Alonso's brother
Trinculo : The king's jester
Stefano : The king's butler
 Setting of the Play

Place
Ship on the sea and take place on an island
somewhere in the Mediterranian on Renaissance
Europe, and perhaps inspired by the real life tempest
which stranded several ships in Bermuda.

Atmosphere
Gloomy, raging thunderstorm, mistic, few light
moments, magical, supernatural
 Mood
supernatural mood:

“Full fathom five thy father lies;

Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell . . .
Hark! now I hear them,—Ding-dong, bell.”
• the dreamlike mood
“Be not afeard. The isle is full of noises,
Sounds, and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices
That, if I then had waked after long sleep,
Will make me sleep again. And then, in dreaming,
The clouds methought would open and show riches
Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked
I cried to dream again.”