Ariel leaves the group in a pool that smells like the lesser part of a horse to await his master's orders. The drunken schemers are led off by Ariel playing music.
Caliban (very drunk) pledges to be Stefano's slave and kisses his feet way more than we are comfortable with. There is also another side story going on: Caliban has been plotting with the King's drunken butler, Stefano, and jester, Trinculo (also drunk), to murder Prospero so they can rule the island. Since the Prince has worked (for what? three hours?) carrying heavy wood, he has permission to marry Prospero's daughter. Switching back to the other group on the island, Prospero now accepts Ferdinand, saying that he was just testing the young man with all that hard labor. So, back at the scene with the monster harpy: Alonso is disturbed and repents of his foul deed, but Sebastian and Antonio-not so much. Still, Antonio clearly has no conscience he admits that he's never been bothered by stealing his brother Prospero's dukedom. This is messed up because Alonso is Sebastian's brother. This traitor comment brings us to an important side-plot: Antonio and Sebastian, thinking Prince Ferdinand is dead, are plotting to murder Alonso so Sebastian can be king.
The harpy also points out that there are three traitors at the table. This freaky harpy (a result of Prospero's magic) says that the sea took Prince Ferdinand in exchange for the wrong Alonso committed against Prospero many years ago. Before they can dig in, a scary harpy monster shows up.
Yes, this is weird, but the search party is hungry and wants to eat. A banquet appears in front of the shipwrecked group, set up by silent fairy spirits. She also declares her love for him, though he is only the third man she has ever seen (the first two are her dad and Caliban, the son of the Devil).īack with the search party looking for the Prince, everyone feels weary and assumes the guy is dead. On Ferdinand's second encounter with Miranda, he learns her name and promises to marry her. Ferdinand is happy to do this because his newfound love for Miranda makes work seem easy. Prospero accuses the shipwrecked Prince of being a traitor and puts Prince Ferdinand to the hard task of carrying wood. His grieving is kind of soft-core, since he's already fallen in love with Prospero's daughter Miranda. Meanwhile, the not-so-lost Prince is alive and convinced that his dad and everyone else from the boat is dead. The shipwrecked group-Alonso, Antonio, Alonso's brother Sebastian, and various lesser lords-set off to find Alonso's son, the lost Prince Ferdinand. Alonso, the King who allowed the wicked Antonio to take Prospero's dukedom, fears he lost his son (the Prince) in the storm. Then we learn that mostly all the folks responsible for stealing Prospero's dukedom were on the sinking boat from the beginning of the play, and they're now scattered about the island. One is a delicate and airy spirit who was imprisoned in a tree by a witch for not being nasty enough (Ariel) and the other is the child of said witch and the Devil (Caliban). However, a star is looking pretty lucky in the sky, so Prospero thinks the time is right for action and revenge. They ended up on this island, where the ex-Duke has raised his daughter for the last twelve years. After all the usurping (which is a great word for stealing positions of power), Prospero and the three-year-old Miranda were shuttled out to the ocean in a wreck of a boat. Prospero says he used to be the Duke of Milan until his brother, Antonio, betrayed him and stole the dukedom (with the consent of the King) while Prospero was busy learning magic in his library (not really his job).
Prospero also tells Miranda that it's time she found out that she's a princess. However, he promises his sweet daughter that nobody was hurt in spite of all the fire, boat-splitting, and drowning that was clearly going on. We learn that Prospero was the source of the magic that caused the storm that sank this boat, and that he did it for good reason. We cut to dry land and to Prospero, our main character, chatting with his daughter Miranda. The boat splits in half and the people float off into the sea. We learn that the King of Naples and several of his attendants are on this boat, and that things are going so badly there's not much to do but pray. It's stormy-you might even call it tempestuous-when we meet some characters on a boat (which is a decidedly bad place to be in a storm).
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