Who does Shakespeare present as more civilised Ari Essays - Fiction

Who does Shakespeare present as more civilised Ariel or Caliban? By Tommaso Faulkner 7RN In this essay, I will show and describe who I think Shakespeare presents as more civilised in his play The Tempest. The tempest is a play describing how a magician called Prospero is banished from Milan by the king of the Naples and his cousins he escapes to this small island and starts a life there with his daughter and then finds two slaves one of them Caliban and the other one Ariel and they live happily till the king of the Naples and his son Ferdinand come in a galleon Prospero sets Ariel on to them and Ariel summons a massive storm to kill them, the king gets washed ashore with his advisor and Prospero's cousins, and Ferdinand the kings son gets washed ashore on the another part of the island. Both Ferdinand and the king of the Naples believing the other to be dead mourn and Ariel makes Ferdinand's life a misery by singing to him about his father at the bottom of the sea, and Caliban tries to assault Miranda (Prospero's daughter) luckily Prospero stops him. I think that Shakespeare presents Ariel as more civilised because all the times that she does something bad or good it is because of orders from Prosepero for example in act 1 scene 2 Ariel torments Ferdinand about his father's death saying that his eyes will turn to pearls, his bones to coral and he would be sung to hourly by sea nymphs. She uses beautiful language while she sings about his father's body at the bottom of the ocean for example when she says those are pearls that were his eyes' which is talking about his eyes turning into pearls. But actually the subject is about what Ferdinand's fathers body would look like at the bottom of the sea and although it was Ariel that tormented him with her beautiful voice and dreadful song it was Prospero that made her do it ;Ariel didn't want to do it she just wants to be free. I also think that Shakespeare presents Caliban as very uncivilised, for example in act 2 scene2 where he curses Prospero for the way he is treated saying that he abuses him hurting him, letting him get bitten by snakes but this is a lie. He also hopes that Prospero will get hurt. But I do not think that Prospero abuses him and I think that Prospero is treating him fairly because he is not nice to Prospero so why should Prospero be nice to him, Caliban tried to assault Miranda and has no respect. once, he took a sip from a bottle of wine and he was suddenly starting a rebellion to kill Prospero, alcohol doesn't create ideas, Caliban also thinks that the island is his and will do anything to get it back and Caliban is also a rude selfish and mad, he also has anger problems once somebody even annoys him a little bit he will attack them, then he is also dirty and desperate. He is in other words uncivilised. In the extract: act 3 scene 3 Ariel goes to the king of the Naples and Prospero's cousins to punish them for their sins against Prospero, by laying out a delicious banquet while they were starving and even though obviously it is a trap the king his advisor and Prospero's cousins move forward to take some food from the banquet once the king touches a piece the whole banquet disappears and Ariel in the form of a harpy appears cursing them, and telling them that they will die a horrible death, then she torments them with visions of crows attacking them. And the only reason that Ariel does this is because she in a way cares for her master (in a friend way) and feels bad for him being banished from his own homeland so she goes to punish them and personally I think that they deserve it. In act 3 scene 2 Caliban explains to stephano and trinculo how the island is full of beautiful music on their way to kill Prospero and take over the island. And says that when he dreams his