The Tempest" opens with a shipwreck, on a somewhat mysterious island. The inhabitants of this island include prospero, the play's protagonist, and father of Miranda. Twelve years before the events of the play, Prospero was the duke of Milan. His brother, Antonio, in concert with Alonso, king of Naples, usurped him, forcing him to flee in a boat with his daughter. Prospero lives with his daughter Miranda, ... he made to educate him. Caliban's hereditary nature, he continues, makes him unfit to live among civilized people and earns him his isolation on the island. Caliban, though, cleverly not...

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