Prospero's Plan(s)

I feel that Prospero's plan from the beginning was to bring the people who caused him to be on the island and took away his dukedom to the island.  I feel that his plan did not change from the beginning of the play.  Two of the reasons as to why I think this way are: he never caused harm to the people who wronged him and that his daughter listened to him when he told her to wait to get involved with Ferdinand.  The way I interpreted this play lead me to believe that Prospero's play was to not harm the people who wronged him because he had them placed on the island safely and never harmed them while they were on the island.  I also feel that the fact that his daughter listened to him while getting involved with Ferdinand just showed that all pieces of his plan stayed in place.

I feel that these plans had great affect on the other characters in the play.  I feel that the plans show this with how Prospero manipulates Ariel by the promise of freedom.  I also feel that these plans affect Caliban greatly as Prospero constantly remind him that he owes him service for teaching he had received.  

In conclusion I feel that Prospero used his plans to achieve exactly what he wanted to happen and I also feel that these plans really affected all the characters in the play, but I feel that the plans affected Ariel and Caliban the greatest. 

The character that I am going to write about is Jess Clark.  This novel has been compared to King Lear many times in class as well as most descriptions that I have read online.  When this novel was compared to King Lear in class I remember someone saying that Jess Clark was the "Edmund" of this story.  I believe this to an extent but also disagree with that statement.  I agree that he could be Edmund in the fact that when he was away in Canada and Seattle his father "disowned" him by not talking about him with others in the community.  However, I also remember that in the reading he had a party thrown in his honor by his father when he returned home.  I have also seen a little bit of "Edmund" in Jess Clark in of the fact that Ginny wishes that she was with him instead of being with Tyler just like Gonnerial wanted to be with Edmund.  On the other hand,  Reagan was interested in Edmund too, but Rose is not interested in Jess in the novel A Thousand Acres.  Another difference that I see in this novel is that there is many scenes in the novel where Jess and Ginny interact and talk while in King Lear there is not much interaction between Gonnerial and Edmund.  I also think that the length of this novel makes the reader think more about the life of Jess than the life of Edmund and that way the reader will always "like" Jess more than Edmund.  That is just a simple explanation Jess Clark's characteristics and how they differ from that of Edmund in King Lear.