When Prospero arrived on the island, he liberated Ariel from a pine tree where the witch Sycorax had imprisoned him. Prospero, the exiled rightful duke of Milan and a master magician in Shakespeare’s The Tempest.Prospero has used the experience of shipwreck on an enchanted island to master all sorts of supernatural powers. MIRANDA 25 More to know Did never meddle with my thoughts. PROSPERO 'Tis time Caliban apologizes to Prospero for taking the foolish Stephano as his master, and Prospero, at last, acknowledges Caliban, and takes him as his own. Stephano, Trinculo, and Caliban's plot is exposed to the whole group, and is immediately forgiven. Then Ariel greets Prospero by saying, "All hail, great master!" Now that a year (or more) has passed, Ariel wants Prospero to uphold his end of the bargain. PROSPERO [To the cloak on the ground] Lay there, my magic. Prospero is the puppet-master, carefully pulling the strings and manipulating the action. PROSPERO No harm. No, not a hair was lost from the head of any person on that ship which you heard break apart and saw sink. In this play, the island on which Prospero lands after his exile accommodates the utopian mastery and implication of knowledge. Ariel cannot give full exercise to his faculty of mischief because he is not an independent agent like Shakespeare’s ‘Puck’ in ‘A Midsummer Nights’ Dream’. Prospero is one of Shakespeare’s more enigmatic protagonists. MIRANDA More to know Did never meddle with my thoughts. But he remains unseen and, like the deep voice and the banquet, even this scene is illusionary. Take comfort. The magic of Prospero looks almost allegorical where a master uses it to manipulate everything towards his causes. I have done nothing but in care of thee, Of thee, my dear one, thee, my daughter, who Art ignorant of what thou art, nought knowing Of whence I am, nor that I am more better Than Prospero, master of a full poor cell, And thy no greater father. As for the awful shipwreck—which touched the goodness of your heart and moved you to such compassion— I controlled it so carefully with my magic that not one person was hurt. Harold Bloom (a literary critic) thought of Prospero as a father figure to Caliban who is disappointed by his rigid denial to learn the culture. These are his latent faculty of mischief and his sincere devotion towards his master Prospero. His victims cannot know that Prospero waits, unseen in the wings. All that is real is the madness that this confrontation has evoked in the three sinners. The enemies in the play are not those whom he shipwrecked, they are of little consequence, and he plays them easily. PROSPERO No harm. Prospero is the master and Ariel is the servant. Enter a Ship-Master, and a Boatswain’ (1.1). Propero's purpose in The Tempest is only to make everything right again. Prospero is a puppet master throughout the play, but releases everything to save himself from his own self. The Tempest opens with one of Shakespeare’s most realistic location scenes: ‘A tempestuous noise of thunder and lightning heard. Ariel then promised to work faithfully in Prospero’s service for a year to repay him. In Act 1, Scene 2, Prospero calls to Ariel, "Come away, servant, come." When examined deeply, two aspects of his character makes him intriguing. Prospero, as a master, is too harsh with him but the fact that initially, Caliban tried to rape his daughter, is one of the reasons behind it. I have done nothing but in care of thee, 20 Of thee, my dear one, thee, my daughter, who Art ignorant of what thou art, naught knowing Of whence I am, nor that I am more better Than Prospero, master of a full poor cell, And thy no greater father. He uses this knowledge to transform the island and its inhabitants and eventually to reconcile with his usurping brother Antonio. Throughout the play, Prospero refers to his magic as ‘art’, developing a sustained parallel between theatre and magic. 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