Assignment task: Analyze on The Tempest
- Constant references to authority, slavery; contemporary voyages and shipwrecks near Bermuda and Tunis. Central issue of the conflict, central topic of conversation, and central question of the story: who should rule what and why?
- Who rules the ship? Who rules the island? Who rules Tunis? Who rules Milan? Who rules in a marriage, the husband or wife? who rules the human, the body, the mind, the imagination, or God? Is force, volunterism, moral character, knowledge, or kindness the basis of rule?