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In "The Tempest", Shakespeare attempts to generate a world where the audience is transported to a world of magic and superstition. This is successfully achieved through the utilisation of numerous dramatic techniques such as setting, symbolism, creation of conflict and characterisation. Prospero, in his twelve years of exile, has had an abundance of time to imagine his vengeance on his brother, Antonio. Using his magical powers and supernatural forces, he creates a storm to capture …

…He plans, along with Sebastian, to kill Prospero. Prospero is initially plotting his revenge, yet by the end of the play, we have reconciliation and Prospero has forgiven his enemies- "For you, most wicked sir, whom to call brother Would even infect my mouth, I do forgive Thy rankest fault - all of them;" The result is compellingly ethical and it appears in contrast to the truly imaginative and magic world the audience is in.