Prospero brings Iris, Juno, and Ceres into a ceremony celebrating Ferdinand and Miranda’s betrothal. As they prepare to eat, Alonso, Sebastian, and Antonio are fiercely reprimanded for their past deeds by Ariel. They get drunk, and Prospero sends Ariel to confuse and play tricks on them.Ī magical banquet is placed before the lords. Caliban encounters Alonso’s jester Trinculo and butler Stephano, whom he decides to serve with the aim of persuading them to kill Prospero. Antonio persuades Alonso’s brother Sebastian to kill the king and claim his throne, but Ariel intervenes and stops them. To test his worth, Prospero makes Ferdinand carry out menial tasks.Īlonso and the lords begin their search for Ferdinand, though they fear him drowned. Prospero gets Ariel to lead Ferdinand across the island so that he meets Miranda, and they fall in love. Caliban, a savage inhabitant of the island who is also controlled by Prospero, expresses his hostility to Prospero, but is forced to do his bidding. He explains to her that he is the rightful Duke of Milan, usurped by Antonio, and that they had arrived on their island many years before after being sent out to sea by some of those whom he now has in his power.Īs Miranda sleeps, Ariel reports that the lords are on the island as he had commanded, with Ferdinand separated from the others. Prospero’s daughter Miranda, afraid for the voyagers, is told they are safe. A ship carrying Alonso King of Naples, his son Ferdinand, Antonio, and other nobles, is wrecked in a storm created by the spirit Ariel, under the magic art of Prospero.
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