The Island - The tempest

The Island - The tempest

1. "Relatively inaccessible to the outside world" - Mike Brett

   • Entrappement

2. "ambitious nature of man in great detail" - Brett

   • "A tempestuous sound of thunder and lightning" - creating the Tempest shows ambition from Prospero to gain back his power

3. "All the qualities o'th'isle,/The fresh springs, brine pits, barren place and fertile" Caliban to Prospero in Act1S2

   • Hints of a productive and fertile side to the island as opposed to an "inhospitable" or "barren" one.

4. "infections.../From bogs, fens, flats"

   • Duality of nature
     • "sweet airs"

5. "The still-vex'd bemoothes" ~ Ariel's reference to the island being near Bermuda.