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Thank you We sneak in Shakespeare's plays the tempest Closing

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lines Kailash shmoop what becomes of prospero and his magical

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powers Prospero is why they come back into his dukedom

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right He wins the game he's He is going be

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restored to his rightful place Yes and kind of in

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exchange for that he's Not really going to do magic

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anymore So prospero basically decides that this is it This

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is his final magic act is a way of returning

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tio ordinary social order How do prospero opening lines relate

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to shakespeare himself The closing scene of this play is

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prospero directly addressing the audience and basically saying this world

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has come to an end His play has come to

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a close i am putting down my magic and you

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as an audience now have the ability to set me

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free to take me off of the island and put

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me back into real life That's another moment where this

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place seems to explicitly be shakespeares goodbye to playwriting prosperi

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saying i'm done creating magic world's Likewise shakespeare say this

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is the end I've created a magical world for you

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my audience and if we can all agree that it's

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over you with your applause can set new writer free

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What becomes a prospero and his magical powers How do 00:01:34.439 --> [endTime] prospero opening lines relate to shakespeare himself Oh yeah

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