The Tempest, written by William Shakespeare (1564-1616), is an Elizabethan romance that combines the conventions of childs play with that of Shakespearean comedies. The tempest in the title refers to both the tremendous assault that opens the play and the emotional conflicts that are highlighted by what follows. The Tempest was commenting on the social context of the period it was written; the fifteenth century, the Age of Exploration, and, in this, Shakespeare was specifically referring to the Bermuda Pamphlets, and to the tale of the Sea Adventure, which lead to the theme of the unexplored and the introduction of Prosperos Art.
The Tempest raises questions that were just beginning to be asked in Shakespeares day and that we have been puzzling over ever since. For example, it questions the sure nature of man, more specifically the character of Caliban; is he in essence innocent or inevitably fallen and adulterate though redeemable either by education or through divine grace? His name, interestingly enough, seems to be an anagrammatise or derivative of cannibal. This can be seen through the undermentioned lines made by Prospero: A tantalize, a born devil, on whose nature / Nurture can never stick... (Act 4, Scene 1 - l 189-190).
This opinion of Prosperos that Caliban is incapable of being educated or trained (nurtured) has quite an aggressive tone, which is evident with the repetition of devil and the alliteration of the cacophonic sounding letter d. This gives the responder an gist of the plot and its movement, as it emphasises certain points and contrasts this with Prosperos self-awareness, towards the end of the play, where he has realized that he too , like Caliban, has an evil side to his nature, and it is through his imaginative journey - his exile on the island - that has...
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