THE TEMPEST ACT 1

Since Prospero and his daughter are the only people on the island he can make it seem that he has all the answers if other people were to come onshore. When he is telling his daughter the story of why then are on the island he tells her that she was too young to remember so, he can basically tell her all lies. For example, at the beginning of the story, Prospero claims that his brother” he whom next thyself of all the world I loved” (act 1 scene 2). He of course used this to his advantage making Miranda believe that her uncle was the man that sent them to this abyss to die. He is putting this notion in her mind and there’s a chance that her uncle had nothing to with it. She cannot resist this information because there’s no one else to oppose her father’s truths. Prospero tries to make the island his own world with all the things that it should be. He uses Ariel to lure in people that are shipwrecked so that he can deceive them that people they were with or loved had died or fate had sent them there. Furthermore, tells Ariel not to be unappreciated, for the fact that, “when I arrived and heard thee, that made gape the pine and let thee out” (Act 1 scene 2). Prospero has made Ariel his servant to do his deeds and she has obeyed everything that he has asked. She wants her freedom and he’s quilting with the fact that he freed her so; she must pay up her debt to him. He makes himself seem like he’s this merciful god or savior that rescued Ariel. Lastly, he uses the past of Ariel which is full of slavery and imprisonment to make her feel bad about the she has acted.