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The audience is introduced to the remaining characters and provided with all the background information necessary to understand their actions and motivations.
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* The audience is introduced to the remaining characters and provided with all the background information necessary to understand their actions and motivations. This very long scene is a means of explaining the background of the play to the audience. It takes lace on the island on which the ship has been wrecked. The first inhabitants we meet are Miranda and her father, Prospero. Miranda has seen the shipwreck and asks her father to help the victims, especially if he is responsible for causing the storm. Prospero asures her that no harm has come to anyone and that he has used his magical powers entirely for her sake. Then he tells her their history. Twelve years earlier, when Miranda was not quite three years old, he, Prospero, was the due of Milan. He had always loved books and had gradually devoted more and more of his time to study, leaving the task...
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