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Prospero's big effects are created by Ariel et al. But
There are a few cases in which the power is less clear. In 1.2,
he seems to make Miranda sleep before Ariel returns from the
ship. And later in 1.2 Ferdinand "is charmed from moving"
without any explicit reference to Ariel's intervention.
When Prospero renounces his magic, of course, he refers to powers
which are beyond the reach of science - raising the dead. And
since the speech is cribbed from Ovid's Medea (THE figure for
scary sorcery) he seems to want to revise the idea that Prospero
just uses natural means.Posted by Cloten on March 31, 1997 at 08:48:33
In Reply to "Scroll down..." posted by Hamlet on March 29, 1997 at 13:39:58
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