For time in general things happen. They either happen for a significant reason or symbolic reason or they happen just all of a sudden. That is the problem with time it gets frustrating that way. The problem of time is crucial because significant things happen simultaneously in that period. For the two stories occur in a framework were things must happen at a significant time for things to work to the advantage of the characters. The stories that will be analyzed will be that of Dante’s inferno and that of Shakespeare’s the tempest. For time characters such as Virgil (Dante’s inferno) and Prospero (the tempest) don’t have enough of.
The first person that would be analyzed would be Virgil and his connection with time. Virgil in the story of …show more content…
Prospero is very consistent he uses his time to his advantage to get things working and properly functioning. For he explains to Miranda in the second scene of act one that time passed and he was replaced by his brother who’s untrustworthy to be duke of Milan his plan is to fix it. The ultimate goal for him is to fix the problems with his many enemies and bring balance. He talks about how he was not there for Miranda he was only in the books. He eventually mentions that his time to make things work. “now I arise. Sit still, and here the last of our sorrow: here in this island we arrived… than other princes can have more time for vainer hours, and tutors not so careful.” (act 1 scene 2 lines 169-174). From his experience on the island he has gained these magical powers from the books he read based on the time frame being it was around 3 years’ time. Therefore for things to fix it he must calculate the time that passes by every moment for things to happen. Therefore it is almost as if he were the leader he almost was in Milan. Since he had this practice of magic that made him this potential wizard that allows the time to his advantage happen even though it is