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By Marcel Draeger

Seminar paper from the yr 2016 within the topic English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,3, college of Potsdam (Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik), path: Seminar: global Will regularly Welcome fanatics - Transatlantic Romance in movie and Literature, language: English, summary: My target during this paper is to teach that The Tempest is a thematically complicated play. accordingly, this paintings is worried with an important subject, which has now not been elaborated on up to the subjects pointed out earlier than, specifically the query of energy and authority inside of this play. because the subject of this paper is to determine how strength and authority paintings in the Tempest, I built the subsequent operating thesis: “William Shakespeare’s The Tempest serves as a first-rate instance for Michel Foucault’s thought on disciple and punishment.” to accomplish this aim, i've got organised my paper into 4 sections, 3 of that have sub-sections. within the first part, I supply Michel Foucault’s idea of panopticism which he handled in his publication self-discipline and Punish: The start of the felony in additional element. within the moment part, I clarify the historic history of The Tempest and that i in short summarise the plot. as well as that, I examine the dramatic constitution that allows you to shape the foundation for the 3rd part, which bargains with the appliance of Foucault’s thought touching on strength and authority at the Tempest. I finish my paper with a fourth part that discusses the operating thesis.

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