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- 00:00
Shakespeare's plays the tempest a'la Shmoop
- 00:10
So Ferdinand is happy you know he's proposed to
- 00:19
miranda Things were going well The other ship direct group [Ferdinand proposes to Miranda]
- 00:22
is famished but like they're actually turns out to be
- 00:26
like a fairy spread of food for that right a
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- 00:29
banquet awaiting them Pretty miraculous But as we already know [Banquet of food appears]
- 00:34
no such thing as a free lunch and this lunch
- 00:37
is going to come with a bit of emotional punishment
- 00:40
So they sit down to dine at this feast but [Brothers sit down at feast]
- 00:42
then a sort of scary monster harvesting and she starts
- 00:48
accusing all the important men So a lot So antonio
- 00:53
and sebastian the crimes that they have committed and they
- 00:56
will commit So it's all like a stage kind of [Police officers appear]
- 01:04
thing where they're confronted with their own wrongs and they
- 01:07
don't know that prospero's behind it right Importantly right They
- 01:10
think of this as like just a supernatural apparition right [Woman discussing Prospero]
- 01:13
Exactly This is like literally being confronted by their demons
- 01:17
Yeah and so basically this is a moment where alonso
- 01:21
who we've thought of as you know the kingly figure
- 01:24
more or less innocent in the kind of scheming that's [Alonso sitting on throne]
- 01:27
been going on finally admits that there was foul play
- 01:31
involved with prospero being ousted from along yeah that he
- 01:36
consented to it right That he was you know at
- 01:38
least partially complicity Yeah and sebastian and antonio at this
- 01:45
point are still hiding the fact that they're basically plotting
- 01:49
to do the same thing to alonso on that they [Hand picks up Alonso off the throne]
- 01:52
don't really care they don't really have a strong sense
- 01:54
morality for them it's all about power Yeah so i
- 01:58
mean as as ones who presumably of convinced alonso to
- 02:01
go through with this in the first place They also
- 02:03
are the ones who are willing to kill alonso himself
- 02:05
Tio send power right Yeah absolutely And antonio is importantly
- 02:10
just advance That he has no remorse about what's happened [Antonio sitting at banquet table]
- 02:12
in the past And so we can assume that he
- 02:15
has no remorse about what's going to happen What's about
- 02:17
to happen or what is currently happening Soulless heartless dude
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