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 The Tempest Epilogue - Summary & Analysis

In this post, I am going to explain you the  Epilogue of The Tempest - Summary & Analysis. In this epilogue, I have described everything that had happened in the epilogue, in a very easy and understandable language.

 

 

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The Tempest Full Epilogue - Starts Here

The play ends with an epilogue by Prospero, the main character of the drama. (It is a speech by one of the characters to the audience to give some additional information). Prospero, who is now alone on stage, requests the audience to free him.

 

 

 He states that he has thrown away his magical powers and has pardoned those who have injured him. With the audience's applause, "Prospero addresses the audience and tells them that he is merely an actor and that he has no magical powers."

 

He has come to take leave and go back to Naples. He has got back his dukedom and has pardoned the faithless enemies, so he must not be kept in this lonely island by their influence. He should be set free from his captivity. They should give parting applause. 

 

He needs their good wishes, which would give wind to their sails. If he does not get their good wishes, all his desires to please them will fail. "Now he has no spirits under his command to carry out his orders by the power of magic." 

 

 

His life will be full of despair if he is not relieved by prayers, which have the power to reach divine mercy and get a pardon for all his faults. As they wish to be pardoned for their sins, he wishes to be pardoned for all his sins by them. They should show their compassion for him.

 

Summary/Commentary of The Tempest's Epilogue:

In the epilogue, Prospero addresses the audience and requests them to clap and applaud the play. Then he says that since he has no magical power and no spirits under his command to carry out his orders, he must be allowed to leave the island and go back to Naples. 

 

"Prospero's plan of peaceful retirement and the fact of the play being Shakespeare's last made some critics assume that Prospero in the play is Shakespeare himself."

 

I want to ask a simple question from you:

 

What do you think, is Shakespeare himself playing the role of Prospero? 

Write your answer in the comment section below!

 

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