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The Tempest Study Guide by Course Hero What's Inside d In Context j Book Basics ................................................................................................. 1 Geographic Exploration d In Context ..................................................................................................... 1 The Tempest was written and performed during an age of a Author Biography ..................................................................................... 2 h Characters ................................................................................................... 2 k Plot Summary ............................................................................................. 5 geographic exploration. During the 17th century European countries were exploring new territories around the world and establishing colonies. With each new colony European countries expanded their political, economic, and cultural influence. c Scene Summaries .................................................................................. 10 The primary result of colonization for the natives in these g Quotes ......................................................................................................... 21 l Symbols ..................................................................................................... 24 m Themes ...................................................................................................... 24 newly "discovered" regions of the world, however, was exploitation and slavery. Families were divided or destroyed, ownership of land and a way of life were surrendered, and people were forced to serve new masters. Additionally the colonists often brought diseases that wiped out native b Motifs .......................................................................................................... 26 populations and practices that altered the natural world forever. It is within this context of colonization that William e Suggested Reading .............................................................................. 27 Shakespeare explores the budding issues of exploitation that come when one culture dominates another. Prospero's slave Caliban reflects how Europeans considered the natives they j Book Basics encountered in their explorations to be "savages" who must be "educated" and "civilized" in order to be saved. AUTHOR William Shakespeare YEAR WRITTEN c. 1611 Utopia and Idealism Often the new territories in Africa and the Americas were quite different from the homelands of the European colonizers. GENRE Exposure to these exotic locations inspired Europeans to Drama imagine more idealistic governments and to develop romanticized notions about the natives of these lands, ABOUT THE TITLE imagining them as more primitive, "natural" beings living in The Tempest takes its title from the storm that casts the men innocent harmony with the world around them. Some believed aboard Alonso's ship onto Prospero's island. that the less developed, less populated locations provided the opportunity to create a new social order a utopia where
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