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Explore the themes of Imprisonment, Freedom and Authority in The Tempest. Why might Shakespeare have chosen to highlight these themes?
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Explore the themes of Imprisonment, Freedom and Authority in The Tempest. Why might Shakespeare have chosen to highlight these themes? There are three categories that could be used to define the forms of imprisonment in The Tempest. You could say they are physical, Ariel being imprisoned in the cloven pine by Sycorax, mental, Prospero being imprisoned by his thoughts of revenge and there is magical imprisonment, Ferdinand being frozen by Prospero. Physical: The first and most obvious type of physical imprisonment in The Tempest is that of Prospero and Miranda, imprisoned on an island after being exiled from the Kingdom they once ruled. "In few, they hurried us aboard a bark, Bore us some leagues to sea, where they prepared A rotten carcass of a butt, not rigged, Nor tackle, sail, nor mast; the very rats Instinctively have quit it ....." Prospero tells Miranda this to try and make her see how they were imprisoned on the island. They...
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