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Which characters are on the island when The Tempest starts, and which characters end up joining the party, post-shipwreck? Spoiler alert: the answer is not and will never be The Harlem Globetrotters.
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- 00:00
Thank you We sneak in So okay so on the
- 00:17
island to begin with are prospero magician dude his daughter
- 00:22
miranda who was exiled But she was very young with
- 00:25
castro Sycorax is evil witch and her son is caliban
- 00:29
who's The evil are like the recalcitrant slaves and then
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- 00:34
we also have ariel who's The one who was actually
- 00:37
imprisoned by sycorax for awhile has not been freed and
- 00:39
is is kind of beholden to pro stroh So that's
- 00:43
the that's the group that's already on the island and
- 00:46
then there's a ship back They come in and then
- 00:48
we have like a whole new cast of characters So
- 00:55
this is a bunch of italians The back story on
- 00:57
this is that prospero wass the duke of york he
- 01:03
was ousted in a terrible plot by his brother antonio
- 01:08
antonio prospero brothers Yes antonio prospero they're brothers we've got
- 01:14
another set of brothers because we've got alonso who is
- 01:17
the king and his terrible brother sebastian Yeah and alonso
- 01:21
is also there with his son for yes exact And
- 01:24
fernand the one who's going to get the hot supper
- 01:27
Yeah and prospero sensing that there nearby and also feeling
- 01:32
it so it's time for revenge that causes this terrible
- 01:36
storm that leaves them shipwrecked on shore What happens is
- 01:41
that the men are all stranded in three separate groups
- 01:44
so really crucially king alonzo thinks that his son prince
- 01:48
ferdinand has died and both of them are pretty distraught
- 01:51
at this alonso because he thinks his heir is gone
- 01:54
and ferdinand because he thinks his father is god he
- 01:57
doesn't know when they're both just to be clear they're
- 02:00
both good do so what's interesting about this situation is
- 02:02
that alonso who's supposed to be in charge actually isn't
- 02:05
really in charge doesn't really understand what's going on until
- 02:07
later antonio was actually successfully after prospero's Kind of the
- 02:10
bad guy The evil schemer antonio and sebastian are steaming
- 02:15
constant First to get rid of prospero's now to get
- 02:19
rid of alonso on the whole idea's that then they 00:02:22.798 --> [endTime] will ascend to power People brothers spread Eh
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