Forbidden Planet Comparison To Shakespeare's The Tempest
On first glance, Forbidden Planet can easily be seen to parallel many other
works relating to technology, nature, or both. One of the most obvious
parallels is, of course, to Shakespeare's The Tempest, the story of a man
stranded on an island which he has single-handedly brought under his control
through the use of magic. Indeed, the characters, plot, and lesson of Forbidden
Planet mirror almost exactly those of The Tempest, with the exception that where
The Tempest employs magic, Forbidden Planet utilizes technology. At this point,
it is useful to recall one of Arthur C. Clarke's more famous ideas, which is
that any technology, when sufficiently advanced, is indistinguishable from ...
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this point a brief synopsis of the movie would seem to be in order,
with special attention as to how it relates to The Tempest.
In The Tempest, a man named Prospero and his daughter Miranda have been
exiled to a remote island which is completely uninhabited, save for an evil
monster and her son Caliban, and which is in a state of primal chaos. Using the
magical powers he has cultivated all his life, Prospero gradually brings the
forces of nature on the island under his control, and manages to somehow enslave
Caliban, whose mother has died in the interim. (Some of these details are fuzzy
because I am familiar with The Tempest only through Marx). A group of sailors
is shipwrecked on the island, one of whom falls in love with Miranda, the lovely
daughter of Prospero. Eventually, Caliban and other servants plot to overthrow
Prospero, but are thwarted and taken back into servitude, thankful to get off
that easily.
Having summarized The Tempest, it is easy to summarize Forbidden ...
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Krell, a superintelligent race
that rose to its peak and then fell 2000 centuries before Dr. Morbius and his
daughter set foot on the planet. The Krell had achieved what they considered to
be the pinnacle of technology--they had left behind their physical bodies in
exchange for computers. Their consciousness resided in computers, which �
projected� bodies for them, so to speak. The perfect blending of man (or
creature, anyway) and technology. They were, in fact, a version of Hardison's �
silicon creature�--they had no physical bodies, save for a series of ones and
zeros stored somewhere in the memory of a supercomputer 40 miles long. What the
Krell had forgotten to explore, ...
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