 Hello and welcome. Now the play The Tempest by William Shakespeare is known as one of his tragic comedies. What tragic comedy means as a genre is basically a play or a story that fuses and mixes together elements of tragedy with comedy and this is what is included within this play. So do bear in mind in terms of genre, this play is classified as a tragic comedy. Now there are lots of different events that happen within this play and of course it can be kind of easy to get lost in the details. So if you're studying this play as part of your coursebook or exams of course it's really important to read the play. So to read the original writing of William Shakespeare. However what I want to do in this video is essentially present you with a mind map summarizing all the major events in a nutshell. So as you can see behind me essentially what I've done is I've summarized in 12 separate steps what happens within the play and this is useful particularly if you're studying this on a last-minute basis or if you just want to be able to take a step back and look at all the events that happen within this play. Do bear in mind as well that I will be having videos where I go into detail on all the key quotations you need to understand and know when it comes to the play's main characters. So do make sure you also check that out where I'm going to go and select the key quotations for each character as well as the word level analysis you can do if you're writing about them for your coursework or exams. Now what we're going to do is we will look at the events of this play in a nutshell. So the tempest in terms of the plot begins with us learning of a ship and obviously reading and witnessing as the audience a ship that's carrying Alonso who's the king of Naples, Ferdinand Sebastian Antonio Gonzalo Stefano and this ship becomes shipwrecked okay it begins to sink. Now we learn separately that Prospero another key character of course he's in fact he's the protagonist of this play he tells his daughter Miranda that he caused the shipwreck okay so there's lots of supernatural elements Prospero is revealed to be a supernatural character he has magical abilities and he is the one that deliberately caused this shipwreck. Now Prospero tells his daughter Miranda about his brother called Antonio who's also part of this ship that's been shipwrecked now he tells her his daughter Miranda of Antonio's betrayal and the reason why so we learned that Prospero his daughter Miranda, Caliban and Ariel they are essentially exiled and living in some form of isolation on an island near Italy we never get the precise location but we learned that they are living in exile away from this city that they came from Milan he used to be the Duke of Milan they're now living on this island now Prospero reveals to his daughter Miranda that the reason why they are there is because of the betrayal that happened as a result of his own brother okay and we also of course as I've mentioned learn that they're exiled on the island along with Ariel and Caliban who have magical powers okay so we learned that Prospero essentially does not want to be on the island that they're on and he has deliberately caused this shipwreck. Then Prospero tells his spirit and slave Ariel to follow the crew so this is the shipwrecked crew Alonzo, Ferdinand, Sebastian, Antonio, Gonzalez, Stefano, and Trilano he tells and asks Ariel to follow them and Ariel leads Ferdinand who is of course part of this crew and he's also Alonzo's son he leads him to Miranda Prospero's daughter okay and they instantly fall in love so Miranda and Ferdinand meet they instantly fall in love okay then Alonzo the king searches and searches for his son Ferdinand okay this is the son that Ariel has led away and of course he then meets Miranda falls in love with him now Alonzo the king of Naples searches for his son however he ends up believing that his son got consumed within the shipwreck and he's now dead so he believes that he's dead then separately Sebastian Antonio who is Prospero's brother remember that Antonio is the brother that basically betrayed Prospero so we know that he's a villain they both decide to plot and kill Alonzo the king of Naples and take the crown so we find that Prospero's brother Antonio is actually somebody who constantly has elements of betrayal within him okay so they plot to kill the king of Naples Alonzo okay then separately the ships Jester Tranculo and Butler Stefano meet Caliban who is Prospero's slave so remember that on the island Prospero also has another slave called Caliban so these guys meet him and Caliban persuades them to kill Prospero however unbeknownst to Caliban Ariel is there and Ariel has listened to what he's talking about therefore Ariel decides to go and of course inform Prospero so we learned that Ariel is actually very very loyal to Prospero so he overhears of this plot and reports it back to his master Prospero then Prospero gives Ferdinand and Miranda so remember that separately Ferdinand Miranda have fallen in love Prospero gives them the blessing for the union and their marriage and after Prospero has spoken to Ariel and he learns of this plot by Caliban to betray him and kill him he and Ariel set traps for the plotters and these traps work and they eventually scare them off okay then Prospero ends up vowing at the completion of his plan that he will renounce all of his magical abilities so he decides that when he has succeeded with what he wishes to do he's going to give up his magical abilities and become just a regular mortal then Prospero ends up revealing himself to Alonso as well as his followers and he confronts them and eventually ends up forgiving them okay so we learned that Prospero once he meets this ship's crew and of course the people that have been shipwrecked he actually tells them of all the bad things that they did to him however he ends up forgiving them so Prospero is presented as actually a very good person at heart which is the opposite of his brother also he grants Ariel his servant the freedom which is his final act of magic before he renounces all his magical abilities now finally the play ends with Prospero preparing to leave the island to return to Milan and returned have his title of being the Duke of Milan restored okay so the play ends on a good note on a positive note with Prospero essentially trying to return back to Milan and restoring his title as the Duke so that's it when understanding the play in a nutshell when it comes to learning about the tempest but do make sure you come back where I go over all the key characters beginning with Prospero and the quotations and word level analysis you want to do if you're writing about any of these characters or indeed the play as a