ENGL 2P82 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Lightning

• School: Brock University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 2P82
• Professor: Mathew Martin

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Ruling is a kind of theater acting according to a script, its opportunistic, act when you can antonio acted his way into the part of the duke of milan. Prospero can be seen as the good legitimate ruler and he has a very different conception of theater. Prospero states this difference between the role ones acting and the role one really is in a metaphor the ivy and the tree he calls antonio the ivy which hid my princely trunk. The ivy takes the shape of the tree but is still ivy not the tree. The metaphor is symptomatic of prospero"s tendency to think of political relations in natural terms part of a larger natural order. Time as a part of the natural order. Shipwreck antonio sees it as an opportunity for sebastian to take his brothers place just as antonio took.