Forbidden Planet Comparison To Shakespeare's The Tempest
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On first glance, Forbidden Planet can easily be seen to parallel many other
works relating to technology, nature, or both. One of the most obvious
parallels is, of course, to Shakespeare's The Tempest, the story of a man
stranded on an island which he has single-handedly brought under his contro ....
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.... however, is that how the
technology works is irrelevant for the purpose of the movie, which is to
entertain and to teach us a lesson about man's control over the elements and
over his own technological creations.
At this point a brief synopsis of the movie would seem to be in order,
with special attention as to how it relates to The Tempest.
In The Tempest, a man named Prospero and his daughter Miranda have been
exiled to a remote island which is completely uninhabited, save for an evil
mon ....
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