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Chapter 33
Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Hag-Seed, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Theater and The Tempest
Vengeance
Imprisonment and Marginalization
Transformation and Change
Grief
Summary
Analysis
Formatted as a script, this chapter repeats the action of the prologue verbatim, from the initial tempest onscreen to the Announcer’s brief rap to the power cut. Again, the audience voices panic and confusion before three shots are heard outside. A voice inside the room commands everyone to “keep your heads down” and “stay right where you are.”
Just as in the Prologue, it’s unclear to the audience which developments are part of the play and which are frighteningly real. Although the reader has a better idea of what’s happening now, this is still a moment of suspense—showing that, even if one understands the illusions behind a piece of theater, one can still be taken in.
Themes
