mpest embark upon their individual imaginative journeysas both a combination of the deeds they have an enacted, 'flowering spontaneously' out of the 'needs of the characters natures', but also the more physical environmental limitation and possibilities. If the island, for example had not been exactly where it was, it is possible that Prospero and Miranda would have died when Alonso set them adrift. However had Gonzalo not responded to the need of his own nature for compassion in supplying them with Prospero's magic books and food, they would indeed have died before they ever got to the island, or once there, powerless without his books, Prospero would have been at the mercy of the evil Sycorax. Going further back, Prospero's tendency to insular academic study gave Alonso's avarice the opportunity of being realised in the first place, but neither Prospero or Alonso would have had the opportunity to rule if they had not been born sons of a duke. Here, we can see that at the base of all the journeys of The Tempest, that they are both 'born' and 'made', just as people in general and artists specifically. The journey inwards and outwards exists in the interface between potential and realit
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