Considering the way Prospero acts toward Caliban, his status as a hero should be removed. .
Prospero also gets angry at Miranda and uses a spell on his daughter. Bishop states, "Prospero reveals an inner reservoir of anger even in the way he talks to Miranda, whom he clearly loves" (1). Prospero is easy to let his emotion affect the way he treats other people. "He doesn't trust her to pay attention to his story, though she shows no sign of deserving his distrust. 'Thou attendst not', he accuses her--an accusation so obviously untrue that it reveals, at least, a worrisome irritability, and maybe a touch of paranoia" (Bishop 1). Moreover, Prospero's behavior plays against him in the situation in which he uses a spell to put Miranda to sleep. Ledingham Angus says that, "In such actions the audience can see the mage's power and Prospero's enormous control, extending sometimes to tyranny, over friend and foe alike. He is willing to manipulate even his daughter Miranda and put her to sleep with terrifying self-assuredness: 'I know thou canst not choose'" (1). .
Prospero's attitude also needs to be mentioned as a problem of a true protagonist when he treats Ferdinand with anger. Eugenio Olivares Merino claims:.
"Sometimes, we cannot help feeling distress about Prospero's behavior, we cannot avoid thinking he has fallen for his demon. Even his use of language has a contaminating quality. At times his diction is almost indistinguishable from Caliban's. His threat to Ferdinand, 'I'll manacle thy neck and feet together./Seawater shalt thou drink. Thy food shall be/ The fresh-brook mussles, withered roots, and husks/Wherein the acorn cradled. (I. ii. 464-467) recalls Caliban's earth-rooteed language.'"(227). .
In this situation, Prospero's words play against him. He acts exactly as a villain who wants to punish others for no reason. .
Moreover, Prospero's villainous behavior appears in the way he treats his closest slave, Ariel.
Moreover, in the view of the majority of critics, the play charts the growth of Lear's wisdom, as he learns the emptiness of worldly glory and comes to embrace the love of his daughter Cordelia as the one true value in his life. ... Jaffa's reading is true to the text of the play and also to the impression Lear in fact makes on stage in the opening scene. ...
