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Thank you We sneak in Shakespeare's plays the tempest Shakespeare

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and prospero Kailash shmoop Our shakespeare and prospero connected he

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obviously they're both magicians They're both worlds makers and their

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good byes Aline are there other other other woman's Well

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they're both really interested in the human soul and this

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kind of this play is often read as shakespeare's final

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meditation on the human soul What is the tripartite soul

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And how is it embodied in the play The greco

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roman version of this is the three parts of the

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soul our reason appetite and will the person is described

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as a charioteer in which ideally reason is at the

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helm and appetite and will are driving forward right So

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yeah so we can think about the relationship between prospero

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and his two servants ariel and caliban as embodying this

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kind of proper relationship between reason and the things that

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kind of dr recent forward right So prospero himself even

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though he's a magician doesn't actually do the magical acts

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he kind of speaks it's his words right and then

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aerials one who actually executes them and related lee caliban

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is doing the hard labor so he is he's in

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charge But he actually doesn't get stuff done himself he

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delegates that's exactly the relationship of the playwright to the

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performance of the play shakespeare dictates what's going to happen

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but literally could not do it without actors on the

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stage and stagehands And all of that also seems connected

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to the idea of like monarchy It's Really important I

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think that prospero is both of ruler and a father

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And likewise shakespeare kind of sit at the helm of

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this tradition of playwrights and he's really concerned with building

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a future world for that Yeah Our shakespeare and prospero

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