![]() ![]() He, too, deals with a darker side as he copes with the loss of his daughter, Miranda, and the loss of his position as the artistic director of the Makeshewig Theatre Festival. The novel is about showing the relationship between the idea of Caliban's darker impulses (captured in the slur "hag-seed" from The Tempest) and Felix. Like Prospero in The Tempest, Felix in Hag-Seed is manipulative and, above all, desires to enact his revenge on those who wronged him. Atwood gives readers a modern retelling of The Tempest and humanizes the actions of the characters. ![]() Like him, they were cast off from society in an island-like setting awaiting release. Felix is, and Atwood potentially chose this title for her novel because, in one way, Felix is "hag-seed." The whole novel is focused on revealing the Caliban in Felix, who parallels his actors in Fletcher Correctional more so than any other character in the novel. While the Fletcher Correctional Players are representative of Hag-Seed, they are not the focus of this novel. ![]()
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