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The Text Response Essay addresses the prompt: Shakespeare’s The Tempest examines what motivates human beings. Discuss.
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Prospero’s justification that there’s “no harm done” is an attempt to obviate Miranda’s concern in the opening scene of The Tempest. Her insistent request that Prospero “allay” the storm that swallows the “poor souls” aboard the “vessel” she sees perish, is met with reassurance. Miranda’s suspicion that by his “art” he has “put the wild waters in this roar”, compels the audience to question Prospero’s motivations and somewhat cynically, Shakespeare seems to suggest that it is personal gain rather than altruism that directs human behavior.
