What are Prospero's powers? Where do they come from? What do they accomplish in settling accounts between Prospero and Antonio/Sebastian/Alonso?
How will Prospero and the others get back to Milan? Will he be a better duke the second time?
What's the significance of the Ferdinand-Miranda partnership? Is it meant to be a model of political legitimacy?
Is Miranda portrayed as solely a possession to be passed from father to husband?
Why is the wedding masque (Act IV, sc. 1) cut short when Prospero remembers that Trinculo/Stephano/Caliban are after him?
What are the parallels between the main plot (politics on the Italian peninsula) and the subplot (i.e., what takes place on the island)?
Evaluate Prospero's fathering skills as evidenced by his relationships with (a) Miranda, (b) Ariel, and (c) Caliban.
How does Gonzalo fit his billing in the List of Characters as "an honest old Counsellor"?
Is this a "comedy" in the sense that it has a happy ending? What's left unsettled by the ending?
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