Last Blog

Sorry this is late, forgot! When I look back at my writing this semester I have found out some stuff. I actually have always hated writing and especially reading my own writing. I know I’m not very good and I would just rather leave it to people like William Shakespeare and my favorite Sylvia Plath. So, it was hard blogging every day for me. I usually only like writing about things that I like, so I loved writing about Opehlia in Hamlet and Lady Macbeth, but I hated writing about Richard the III. With these blogs though I found that maybe writing about these characters I learn to understand their personalities and I’ve come to admire the complexity of someone like Richard. It might be good for me to stray out of my comfort zone in writing and explore something that I would normally just ignore and dismiss as unimportant.

Tempest Act V

I think Prospero wants to stop using magic. In his speech he is talking to the audience telling them that he was almost enslaved to the audience and now wants to live his life in Naples. He says ” I must be here confined by you/Or sent to Naples”. So, now it seems that maybe Prospero wasn’t doing all of this magic because he was power hungry but because he wanted to entertain. This reminds me of Ariel. He has to perform all of these magical things and is enslaved to Prospero and all he wants is his freedom. He says since he has done what he had set out to do, “in this bare island by your spell; But release me from my bands with the help of your good hands.” If the audience was pleased with the play and clapped then he would be allowed to leave and go to Naples. “let your indulgence set me free.” I think he would really stop using magic, why would he not? He has the dukedom and is happy, so he doesn’t need magic anymore.