Analysis of The Tempest

                  The tempest is a play by William Shakespeare. Throughout this play you can notice that power is making the rules. In the centuries that the play was written it was all about power. If you have power, you can control and dominate anything. When I look these two characters "Prospero and Caliban" very close, i see that there is a big conflict between them. Caliban was the first one who ruled that island before Prospero with his devil power taken over or conquered the island. Even though there is cold war between these two characters,they still teaching or share to each other things they know. For example Prospero taught Caliban how to read and how to speak his language. In Caliban in return taught Prospero a lot of good things about the island. However, the fact that Prospero is the one is ruled the island, there is a kind of jalousie. Caliban hates the fact that Prospero is ruling the island and he doesn't have power to control the island anymore, and he feels like Prospero is using him or makes him turns his slave to do whatever he requests. For these reasons, Caliban wants to be free and takes control of the island again. To do so, Caliban wants to kill Prospero in order to take control of the island again. 

                  There is also an exchange of culture between Stephano and Caliban. Stephano at first thinks Caliban was a a fish because he smells just like a fish. Then he thinks he can make a lot of money with Caliban which he considers to be a strange creature if he takes it back home. As back home Stephano is just a poor guy in the middle class with respect, he thinks that would be a good idea to take Caliban with him. In his mind people are going to like it because Caliban look like a fish, and he actually expects to get respect if he does such a thing. Caliban in his turn wants Stephano to be his master, so that Stephano can help him killing Prospero. 

                    There are several other conflicts in the Tempest. Caliban against Prospero, Alonzo and Antonio against Prospero. All of these conflicts have the same objective which is the envy to dominate. They all want to be free from the one who has the power to control them. 

                     Later in the play, Shakespeare concluded that everything goes back to normal. At the end everybody make peace to each other. As they have made peace, they plan to get back to their native country. As for Caliban, the play doesn’t say what Prospero did with him. But from my understanding, I can assumed that Prospero leave Caliban on the island. I assumed Caliban stay on the island because at the end Prospero rejected him. And I don’t think no one would still want to be in contact with someone who hates you and wants your death.