His dialogue, “Now my charms are all o’erthrown / I must be here confined by you, Or sent to Naples. An important message that reappears in the play is that is important to show compassion and forgive others, in particular at the start of Prospero’s final soliloquy. The Tempest begins the conversation of forgiveness by reflecting Shakespeare’s Christian values. It draws on the original’s ideas of forgiveness, imprisonment, and revenge however, it reimagines them to be relevant to new societal values. This is seen in Margaret Atwood’s novel Hag-Seed (2016), which mirrors The Tempest to some extent. Shakespeare’s play The Tempest (1611) makes note of the Elizabethan interest of exploration, as well as ideas still relevant to the current world. The characters and motifs of these texts do not change rather, they are reshaped to align with the author’s context, which ultimately shapes their creative decision.
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