In another part of the island, the King of Naples searches for his son, although fearing him to be drowned. Prospero decides to test Ferdinand through hard physical labor.

Next, the spirit Ariel leads Ferdinand, the King's son, to Prospero's cell, where he and Miranda fall in love.

At Prospero's bidding, the invisible Ariel directs their wanderings.Д«efore Miranda is able to see anyone from the ship, she and Prospero visit the now enslaved Caliban, who has been bound into service by Prospero since he tried to rape his daughter. The shipwrecked travelers have been brought to shore, and separated into different parties. He assures her that no real harm has come to the survivors. Prospero tells Miranda that fortune has brought his enemies close to the island and that he has used his powers to raise the storm which shipwrecked them. His daughter Miranda has grown up seeing no other human being. Father and daughter landed on a distant island once ruled by the witch Sycorax but now inhabited only by her son, Caliban, and Ariel, a spirit (in addition the assorted lesser spirits of the island.)ДЇor the past twelve years Prospero has ruled the island and its two inhabitants by the use of magic arts derived from his studies. They were secretly aided by the kind Gonzalo who supplied the two with minimal provisions and ProsperoвЂ™s books. Prospero and his baby daughter Miranda were put to sea in a rotten boat. Eventually, with the help of King Alonso and his brother Sebastian - inveterate enemies of Prospero - Antonio usurped the dukedom for himself. Engaged in his books, Prospero withdrew more and more into his studies, leaving the management of his state to his brother Antonio. Twelve years ago Prospero was Duke of Milan. Prospero tells Miranda that the time has come for her to learn the story of her past and how they came to live on this island: On a nearby island, Miranda discovers that her father Prospero, the former Duke of Milan, has created the tempest through his use of magic. The KingвЂ™s ship is caught in a storm at sea, its passengers and crew facing certain death as the vessel splits apart.

He is accompanied by Ferdinand (his son), Sebastian (his brother), Antonio (the Duke of Milan), and Gonzalo (a trusted Councillor). On a ship bound for Italy, Alonso, the King of Naples, is returning from his daughter's wedding in Tunis. Though the play draws on travel narratives of the period and contains echoes of other writings (Ovid's Metamorphoses, Virgil's Aeneid, and MontaigneвЂ™s Of the Cannibals among them), The Tempest remains Shakespeare's own fantastical invention. Generally considered the last play written by William Shakespeare, The Tempest is remarkable for being one of only two plays by Shakespeare (the other being LoveвЂ™s LaborвЂ™s Lost) whose plot is entirely original.

Ferdinand the tempest