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One of Shakespeare’s lighter plays, The Tempest is a story about love, revenge, and greed. Set on a mythical island in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, Prospero comes up with a plan to avenge a disservice that has been done to him, reclaim the title his brother stole, and in the process help his beautiful daughter find true love. Through the use of magic and spirit servants, he also uncovers plots to kill the king and himself. One interpretation of ‘The Tempest’ identifies Prospero with William Shakespeare himself. Like Prospero, Shakespeare was an artist and one may say a kind of magician who created characters and dramas to entertain and enlighten. In his epilogue, Shakespeare, has the character Prospero ask us, the audience, to confirm our collusion with both the master and his creature. Indeed the two relationships reciprocal. We are asked to release Prospero from our "spell" by "prayer". In the context of the story Prospero’s monologue makes perfect sense. He has lost his magical power, so his "…charms are o’erthrown, And what strength I have’s mine own, Which is most faint." He is now ‘confined’ on the island, for his other choice would be to go to Naples and reclaim his dukedom, but he doesn’t want