The Tempest is a play or actually a Drama on the expelled Duke of Milan Prospero and his daughter Miranda. the Duke uses who uses his magical powers to punish his enemies when he raises a tempest that drives them ashore.he entire play takes place on an island under his control whose native inhabitants, Ariel and Caliban respectively aid or hinder his work.
The magician Prospero, rightful Duke of Milan, and his daughter, Miranda, have been stranded for twelve years on an island after Prospero's jealous brother Antonio—helped by Alonso, the King of Naples—deposed him and set him adrift with the then three-year-old Miranda. Gonzalo, the King's counsellor, had secretly supplied their boat with plenty of food, water, clothes and the most-prized books from Prospero's library. Possessing magic powers due to his great learning, Prospero is reluctantly served by a spirit, Ariel, whom Prospero had rescued from a tree in which he had been trapped by the Algerian witch Sycorax. Prospero maintains Ariel's loyalty by repeatedly promising to release the "airy spirit" from servitude. Sycorax had been banished to this island, and had died before Prospero's arrival.
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