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Shakespeare's The Tempest 2 Prospero's Powers 134 Views


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Does Prospero have magical powers? And if he does, could he get us into Hogwarts? We've been waiting so patiently...

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Thank you We sneak in Shakespeare's plays the tempest prospero's

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powers last night Does prospero have magical powers So he's

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been studying magic he's been studying magic for a very

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long time But he's honed these skills on the island

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and even though we don't get to see very many

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direct magic acts this isn't kind of harry potter where

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people are making things fly air creating potions But we

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do You see him interact with the world around him

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in supernatural ways and he can kind of tell various

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score it's what to do The spirit Ariel who is

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sometimes visible to other people but is mostly only visible

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to prospero basically moves around in magical ways Because prospero

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know so much about the natural world know so much

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about how to manipulate It kind of is constantly setting

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these forces in ash Does prospero have magical powers Oh

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