“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.” – William Shakespeare. William Shakespeare’s The Tempest begins with a terrible storm that Prospero, the story’s main character, summons using magic to get revenge on his younger brother Antonio for betraying him. Prospero later shows a change of heart when Ariel convinces him that peace is better than revenge, and he devises a plan to make peace while retrieving his rightful title of Duke of Milan at the same time. During his time period, William Shakespeare in The Tempest, expresses multiple themes, of these include the illusion of justice, struggle for power, the difficulty of distinguishing man from monster, and colonization, and he shows them through