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A New York native who mostly grew up in Virginia Grace Tiffany is a Renaissance scholar who in recent years has turned her hand to the creation of historical novels Ariel is beautiful and magical a creator of dreams and of mischief Sprung from the mind of a dazed sailor shipwrecked in the Bermuda Triangle she rules half of her enchanted isle dreaming of the savior from the east who will help her conquer all When Prospero a lost mariner appears on the beach his young daughter Miranda in tow Ariel entices him with her visions of conquest Together she promises they will defeat the mysterious tribe whose drums beat beyond the island s rain forest The homesick Prospero struggles to resist Ariel s charms but he almost falls under her spell when Miranda falls in love with their servant the island boy Caliban Ariel wants to march west Prospero wants to sail east and daughter Miranda wants to play on the beach with her boyfriend Their clash comes to a head when Ariel summoning her full powers creates a cataclysmic storm that will change their lives and the island forever Shakespeare scholar Grace Tiffany looks at the dark side of Shakespeare s The Tempest investing a female Ariel with tremendous strength The Tempest takes on new meaning for new readers as Tiffany explores the imagination s power to transform grief into dangerous dreams Ariel By Grace TiffanyI quite enjoyed this I went in not realizing it was a retelling of the tempest so I read that while reading this and it was a decent adaptation in my opinion Ariel is a bit creepy but I feel misunderstood as well she doesn t understand humans because she isn t human so I feel like holding her to the same moral system seems a bit foolish Overall I enjoyed it Ariel By Grace Tiffany Having reread William Shakespeare s The Tempest last week I thought I d have a go at Grace Tiffany s Ariel a little book that s been sitting on my shelf for the past couple of years The Tempest is fascinating and has inspired numerous retellings over the past 400 years from W. Ariel xxl washing powder H Auden s heady poem The Sea and the Mirror to the cheesy sci fi classic Forbidden Planet to the contemporary production of the play as envisioned by magician Teller he s the quiet one and director Aaron Posner with acrobatics by Pilobolus and music by Tom Waits However I shouldn t have wasted my time with Tiffany s thin novel which is poorly written and mostly a bunch of nonsense And by time I m done here I will have ruined its idiotic twists and the big reveals at the end of the book so there s no point in you reading it either You have been warned. Ariel book lego instructions Tiffany s re imagining of Shakespeare s play seems to have been written for teens although why the author chose to do this I can t imagine especially since her bio depicts her as a professor of English lit at Western Michigan University with an emphasis on the Renaissance Because even if Shakespeare s original has at its core a relationship between a grumpy father and his precocious fifteen year old daughter a daughter who now thinks her old dad isn t all that cool any and falls for the first good looking guy she meets the play s rich language and even richer thematic concerns put it far beyond anything that could be adequately or satisfactorily explored in a dumbed down version packaged for teen readers by a HarperCollins YA children s publishing line. Ariel publicidad Come to think of it perhaps Miranda and Prospero s story could be satisfactorily adapted as YA fare if the right author and the right publisher went about it in the right way There s the absent mother the attempted rape the controlling father who learns he needs to let his growing daughter find her own way in the world There s the exotic setting lots of drinking violence and conflicts of class and race there s witchcraft and sorcery in fact there s just about everything that could be successfully exploited by an author seeking to bank on Shakespeare s genius and scale down his rich tale into a YA money grab But that s not the book that Tiffany has written. Epub aristotle She forgoes all of that and instead tries to write something that maybe she thinks is a thoughtful re examination of some of Shakespeare s themes but I dunno Frankly I don t understand Tiffany s motivations or intentions for writing her book The epigraph from Auden s The Sea and the Mirror lured me into Ariel expecting a novel even if it were written for teens that explored the rich internal world of the imagination and the creative impulse of the artist as well as the potential for self destruction inherent in that very impulse ideas that Shakespeare explores in The Tempest through Prospero and Ariel long before Samuel Taylor Coleridge or Percy Shelley or for that matter Dylan Thomas or Charles Bukowski or Neil Gaiman ever wrote about similar ideas And Tiffany s first few sentences seem to carry out the promise of the epigraph The first thing you should know about Ariel is that she s a liar Dreams lie and she is both dream and the maker of dreams Her work is not to tell the truth but to play to sing dance and spin thrilling pictures in the air But that s about as good as it gets in Tiffany s book Even her next sentence rings false She likes bold colors subtle hues and shades do not interest her She paints with a broad brush And that s just nonsense That perhaps is what bad YA writing does and it s what this awful retelling of The Tempest may do but it s not what Shakespeare does or what Ariel or Prospero do in his play and it s not what good writing or art does either. Ariel detergent When I read the Auden epigraph and the first few lines of Tiffany s book I thought Okay I get it Art and the imagination are great deceivers They re dangerous Sure I ve heard that idea before After all the imagination is a powerful force and the creative impulse can be both a creator and a destroyer Picasso tells us that art is the lie that tells the truth or at least he said something close to that And Shakespeare knew the same thing centuries before Picasso But that s not what Tiffany is doing in her book In fact I can t really tell you what Tiffany intended to do here but her version of The Tempest and her spin on Ariel art and the creative force of the imagination is just a lie It doesn t tell the truth at all It doesn t do anything except deceive and it certainly doesn t add any beauty to the world Strangely in her story of Ariel Tiffany seems to be saying that art and the imagination are absolutely useless a shockingly bad message from a professor of English literature writing a book for teens and pre teens that purports itself to be a retelling of Shakespeare s Tempest. Ariel book week costume Critics don t all share the same view of Ariel s role in Shakespeare s play but most would agree that Ariel is an elemental spirit associated with the air and water of the island in stark contrast to the monster that is Caliban connected to the isle s earth and rocks Ariel has been subjugated by Prospero a magician of vast power cast away on the island with his three year old daughter after being exiled from his position of duke of Milan Prospero uses Ariel as an agent of his imagination to do his bidding over the 12 years that father and daughter have been on the island especially to carry out his plan to avenge himself on those who have wronged him and restore himself to his dukedom in Milan Ariel is a gentle spirit a gracious one and eager to please who is both thankful to Prospero for having freed him from the imprisonment in the tree by the witch Sycorax but also anxious to be granted his own freedom by Prospero so he can return to the elements a freedom that Prospero has promised him once his plans for dealing with his enemies have been achieved This without getting into the specific details is Ariel s role in the play and most readers and critics recognize the essential nature of Ariel as a servant to the powerful Prospero who not only being a wizard is Shakespeare s stand in for the artist even for the playwright himself. Ariel book In her preposterous spin on Shakespeare s story Ariel is a dangerous hateful female spirit who has somehow been born from the dying thoughts of a Jewish sailor blown all the way across the Atlantic from the coast of Malta after a storm separated him from his master s ship His name was Jasper seriously Jasper and his master was the apostle Paul Jasper washes up on the shores of an island in the Bermuda Triangle Like Athena I guess but a whole lot meaner Ariel pops out of Jasper s head and lives alone on the island for hundreds of years as Jasper s bones bleach in the sun She s not Wisdom though And in keeping with Shakespeare or at least in keeping with some of the interpretations of Shakespeare s character she seems to be the embodiment of the Imagination. Ariel et ursula In her isolation Ariel gives birth to three minions Intellect Madness and Fantasy and the four of them enjoy themselves on the island although they seem to be trapped in the Triangle itself But if that all seems strange how for example does the Imagination exist absent the artist and doesn t Mind Nous in Tiffany s words give rise to Imagination not the other way around don t fret yourself worrying about the particulars because as the story develops things get and ridiculous. Epub reader pc Ariel longs to leave the Triangle not for the sake of freedom which would fit in nicely with Shakespeare s ideas but because she is curious about the people who live beyond the wall of the Triangle on the other side of the island She hears their drums and for some reason has a strong impulse to conquer the rest of this island and subdue the peoples she imagines must be making this racket After several hundred years stuck in the Triangle Ariel sees a young pregnant woman washed onto the shores of her island Sycorax a Saxon who has been kidnapped by Vikings and working on their ship She gives birth to a dark skinned baby Caliban whose father was apparently an African traveling with these Vikings Ariel doesn t help with the birthing process although she gives birth to her three minions Ariel doesn t know nuthin about birthin no babies and Sycorax somehow curses Ariel to be imprisoned in a tree How I dunno Don t worry about it You won t make sense of any of the book. Ebook auf kindle laden Ariel hates Sycorax and her handsome boy Caliban I know who suffers a twisted leg from Ariel not helping with the birth And then from her tree prison Ariel somehow convinces Caliban to poison his mother and several years later an old man and his three year old daughter wash up on the island and the storyline of The Tempest follows. Ariel books sydney Or not because here are just a few of the details in Tiffany s story Prospero is a farmer not a Duke and he s a bad farmer as well as a bad poet Prospero wasn t exiled Apparently he did something dumb like take his daughter and a bunch of books and get in a boat to go to some Greek poetry conference and then got blown all the way across the Atlantic Upon arrival on the island Ariel makes Prospero believe himself to be a duke wronged by his brother His terrible desire for vengeance is all the creation of Ariel for Prospero doesn t really want vengeance he has nothing to take vengeance against His brother Antonio is well intentioned and loves him Sure he s better with money than Prospero who always has his head in a book but Antonio has kept Prospero s farm going for him in his 12 year absence and taken care of Prospero s grieving wife Althea Alonso is Antonio s partner in their farming concern He doesn t hate Prospero either It s all so very nice and would have been if not for that scheming menace Ariel. Ariel books sydney Not only does Ariel fill Prospero s head with delusions and a desire to harm the people who love him but she also desires to harm the noble Caliban and poisons Prospero s mind against him Ultimately her great plan after Prospero avenges himself against Antonio and Alonso and does away with Caliban is to get Prospero to take her beyond the wall so that she can dominate the rest of the island and conquer whoever is playing those goshdarn drums In Grace s retelling Ariel is a sadistic maniac seeking to spread misery and destruction and Prospero is a rather foolish incompetent All he can really do is read books which is really a big waste of time although his brother does concede near the end of the story Work is good but stories have their place Gee thanks Miss Tiffany At the end several centuries after Prospero has abandoned Ariel on the island someone does show up who is perfect for the seed of evil that Ariel wants to spread And look who it is My my it s Christopher Columbus arriving on the Nina the Pinta and the Santa Maria Let s see a dying Jewish sailor Christian missionary gives rise to an idea that is embraced by a Genoese explorer and his expanding civilization that leads to the genocide of the New World s indigenous peoples as well as the institution of slavery in the Americas ha If Grace Tiffany had anything going on in this book that even remotely made sense I d say that s almost genius Except it s not It s just poorly written tomfoolery masquerading as a bad YA book And it s got nothing to do with The Tempest. Ariel books sydney Here s the one bit of the story that really works for me Remember Claribel Alonso s daughter that he marries to the King of Tunis Well in Tiffany s book she s Claribel the cow who took top honors at the Lisbon fair and they sold off to some African buyer now that s funny stuff As for the rest of it I say we follow Prospero s lead here and deeper than did any plummet sound we drown Grace Tiffany s book. Ariel by sylvia plath epub Here s a slightly better YA book trying to rework The Tempest Dennis Covington s LizardAnd here s a much better treatment of The Tempest by a much better author Margaret Atwood s Hag Seed written for the Hogarth Shakespeare series Ariel By Grace Tiffany I liked this The author did a lovely job of creating Ariel and making her accessible to humans while at the same time never letting us forget that Ariel is not human There are moments when the division is a little weak but mostly it is strong and consistent Tiffany also does a nice job of showing how much of what the various humans see or think of feel is a direct result of Ariel s manipulations Ariel By Grace Tiffany Tiffany s plot takes Shakespeare s The Tempest and changes the focus to Ariel In Tiffany s hands Ariel s inhumanity is emphasized by her cruelty towards Caliban In some ways Tiffany s interpretation of Ariel is similar to J. Ariel pibes chorros M Barry s Tinkerbell The changes made to the well known play are intriguing Ariel By Grace Tiffany This one or less called out to me at my visit to the library yesterday I haven t read anything Shakespeare for years so I had nothing really to compare it to which might not have been a bad thing it s always fun going in with a fresh perpective. Aerial pd400 complicated I did like that she is a free spirited flighty thing that likes to keep herself entertained and won t have anything dull near her and will even include details to Bible stories if she finds them too boring But at the same time she is much like a child who hears stories of grand adventure and battles and wants to have all of these things around her without really understanding what it means It becomes clear for example that she loves the thought of battles and conquering but has little to no concept of the death and destruction that would happen as a result as long as it s not boring to her and people are acknowledging her with reverence somewhere She yearns for someone human whom she can make her champion and when that person finally appears I had mixed feelings given the recent controversy of the character s history but then given the facts that came to light about him maybe they ARE in fact perfect for each other All things considered it was an entertaining read and I recommend it if you happen upon it in a library or bookstore Ariel By Grace Tiffany
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