Question

Propers. This blue eyed old witch was brought here while pregnant, and
left here by the sailors. You, my slave as you call yourself were then her
servant. Because you were too delicate a spirit to execute her material and
hateful orders, you refused her chief commands Then she carried away by
ungovernable rage, imprisoned you in a split pine tree, with the help of her
more powerful agents. In that cleft imprisoned, you remained in pain for some
twelve years, and during that interval she died and you were left there to send
out your proans as fast as the beats of a mill wheel, At that time, this island
did not have a single human inhabitant but had only the spotted with child
whom she bore.



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Answer 1

Explanation:

This is a play by Shakespeare named"The Tempest". It is set on an island somewhere near Italy where PROSPERO, the one-time Duke of Milan, and his beautiful daughter, Miranda, live with a sprite called Ariel and a strange wildman called CALIBAN; Prospero is narrating to Ariel (a spirit who was relieved by him) ; Caliban , the son of the so called witch is now being tortured by Ariel as a 'revenge'. The first two lines describe the appearance of witch and then the play continues...