Mikeina H. Yang Moosman IB English SL March 2018 The Tempest Summary It begins with a shipwreck, leaving the passengers stranded on an island. As Prospero is controlling the storm, Miranda starts to freak out as she saw the ship in the storm and thought that many sailors have died. Prospero ensures that the storm did not actually kill anyone and the ship is still intact while hidden away in a secret harbor. Miranda asks her father, Prospero, why he decided to strand these people here at the island. Prospero finds out that he was once himself the Duke of Milan, and Miranda was basically a princess. Although instead of fulfilling his tedious government duties, he was too busy reading books, studying, and being scholarly in general. He handed all the government work that he was avoiding to his brother, Antonio. However, Antonio had greater ambitions and persuaded King Alonso, King of Naples, that Prospero was not fulfilling his duties and that he should be exiled- more of like set adrift in a tiny, rickety boat to die out at sea, and Antonio would take over as full-time Duke of Milan. King Alonso agreed to the plan, meanwhile Gonzalo, an overall swell nobleman, took pity on Prospero and Miranda, his three years old daughter at the time. He supplied them with food, clothings, and books. After they drifted to shore, Prospero has been raising Miranda all by himself and simultaneously being an extremely powerful sorcerer. All this time keeping Miranda away from the magic and