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

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Kailash shmoop How does the theme of confinement play a

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role in the play Yeah they're several different types of

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confinement of course they're all confined on the island physically

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removed from the world Prospero is on the island as

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a form of exile so there's a kind of national

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confinement and various people in the play are either trapped

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at different points or they lay traps for each other

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This is absolutely a play where you're going to see

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a lot of people struggling against different types of boundaries

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and also just trying to entrap others How does imagination

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tie into this feeling of confinement Yeah everything happens because

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cross borough dreams things up and sets them into action

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This is not about how forces outside of human lives

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shaped the course of human lives This is really a

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play about how the things that you dream and plot

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and plan can come true for better for word how

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our own ideas are actually making our own reality is

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right which again kind of plays into this confinement beam

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because the island as a symbol not only of our

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land but also of our minds right is also kind

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of infinite In its possibilities Right So there's A sense

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that you know they're trapped there like anything can happen

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How does the theme of confinement play a role in

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the play How does imagination tie into this feeling of 00:01:39.099 --> [endTime] confinement

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