... and compassion. Prospero's desire for revenge wilts though the play and the catalyst for his transformation start when Ariel described the prisoners as, "brimful of sorrow and dismay", whose " tears run down his beard like winters drop". Shakespeare's characterisation in Ariels figurative language reminds Prospero of his humanity in which Prospero concludes that there is "the rarer action ... unknown, this can be evoked through curiosity and wonder, and in turn, often leading to confronting and provocative discoveries. This is evident through the curious nature of Miranda in, "you have ...

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