Your knowledge of the play is simply completely inaccurate. Prospero is the former Duke of Milan. He is overthrown by his brother and, in turn, takes over the island from its native inhabitants, Caliban and Ariel. He leaves the island after he uses his powers to guilt his brother into giving him his title back, and…

I’m a little embarassed to say I had never heard of her, but I can assure you I’ll be checking her out soon.

I don’t know. I sort of recall even as a teen thinking that Atticus’s enjoyed having the poor and suffering precisely so he could show his superiority. Scout even opens the book with a tracing of ancestory back to England, which, of course, those American “aristocrats” love to do. It is an early signal that this man…