So I never did this but I tried to do my own analysis/theory of Gundam The witch from mercury and The Tempest of Shakespeare ( I think I’m not the only one tho)
I keep thinking about it since I love both piece so much lol
Might be some spoil so don’t read it if you don’t want ! I didn’t watch the prologue yet actually so I’m not fully sure about everything.
Also, it’s just my own interpretation, so don’t take it too seriously.
But if it follow the book it might be similar i guess. (I kinda spoil myself in a way lol)
I read some Tempest analysis to complete my thought too so here we are.
Let’s start with the character, since I will refer to them a lot.
Prospero, a magician on exil->Prospera Mercury/Also Delling Rembran time to time
Miranda, Prospero’s daughter ->Suletta and Miorine time to time
Ferdinand, Alonso’s son->Miorine
Ariel, an air spirit who serve Prospero->Aerial
Caliban, a monster who serve Prospero on the island ->Elan, but also Guel and sometimes Suletta actually
Alonso, King of Napples->Delling Rembran
Trinculo, Alonso Jester ->Guel
Stefano, Alonso drunken butler -> Shaddiq
Sebastian, Alonso brother->Benerit group branch families (I think Jeturk)
Antonio, Prospero brother-> Benerit group branch families (I Think Grassley)
G-Witch will be quote as GW, and The tempest book as T.
T book is about Prospero,
who was 12 years ago the rightful Duke of Milan, betrayed by his brother Antonio and the king of Naples Alonso. Nowhere to be, he is escaping with his daughter on a island, and slowly planning his vengeance by mastering magic.
Years after, the boat of The king Alonso, his son Ferdinand, his brother Sebastian, and Prospero brother Antonio, crash on the island, due to a tempest cause by one of Prospero servant, Ariel, a spirit of air.
Prospero seek for vengeance and by using Ariel magic, he is trying to manipulate everyone, even his daughter.
The book end with a happy ending, with the marriage of Ferdinand and Miranda and Ariel is break free.
In GW, what we know so far is Prospera Mercury is indeed seeking vengeance for who made her suffer in the past. She was living on Mercury, with her daughter Suletta.
Years away from other make her master magic (here gundam craftsmanship and knowledge).
As she trying to take down the all benerit group, and specially Delling Rembran, she is using her daughter Suletta to achieve her goal, along with Aerial, her servant.
The arrival of Suletta and Aerial is like the tempest at the beginning of Shakespeare book: they both shaking the entire world and statut quo, and Prospera can start her vengeance.
She is like Prospero, targeted by the 3 characters (the 3 branch of the benerit group) Trinculo (Guel, who represent Jeturk ) Stefano (Shaddiq, who represent Grassley) and Caliban (Elan, who represent Peil Tech) since they do want to take her servant away, Ariel (Gundam Aerial).
Antonio, Prospero’s brother, and Sebastian, Alonso’s brother are trying to take down Alonso.
Both of them are really similar to the two branch of the benerit group (Jeturk and Grassley) who are trying to take down Delling by attending to murder him. And let’s not forget Prospera is trying to make alliance with them.
Delling is I think, both representation of Alonso the king, and Prospero.
Prospero if a few time target by 3 characters, Trinculo (Jeturk) , Stefano (Grassley) and Caliban (Peil) as they try to kill him in his sleep.
Alonso’s son Ferdinand, here Miorine, is the primary goal of Prospero (here Prospera) vengeance:
make his daughter Miranda (Suletta), and Ferdinand (Miorine) fall in love.
Miranda is a really naive girl since she grew up on a tiny island. She doesn’t know anything about the outside world, and it fit Suletta perfectly.
Also she’s not aloud to choose her husband in the book. Her father push her in the arms of Ferdinand and they do fall in love.
Miorine and Suletta marriage/pact is all planned by her mother since the beginning.
Talking about Miorine, she’s also both Ferdinand and Miranda.
Miorine is not aloud to choose her husband due to her father rule, and she is the object of interest of Shaddiq, Guel but also Suletta (because of Prospera)
Also, in T, Ferdinand is really naive, as much as Miranda, and end up being without his knowledge a piece of the plan of Prospero.
In GW Miorine and Prospera became relatives, and with Miorine on her side, Prospera plan is going further.
Elan is I think, a character name Caliban in T book. Caliban is supposed to be half human and half monster, and he is serving Prospero as a slave on the island. He is the son of a witch name Sycorax.
And I thought It funny people from mercury are called "witches".
Caliban and Ariel are similar character, since they both represent creature/spirit Prospero can control.
And there it come, Elan is a gundam pilot and he is under "the malediction".
Caliban is supposed to be a monster deformed. He is as much an antagonist and a victim in the story (rip Elan clone), since Prospero is using him and considered him like nothing less than a human (Peil Tech)
When Aerial is the good representation of gundam, by not taking the life of his pilot, Elan and his gundam are the bad representation of it (and this explain also why people dislike gundam and Witches so much)
Caliban also try to rape Miranda in T book.
Wich Elan kinda "try" (representation) with Suletta, by forcing a kiss. Where Ferdinand (Miorine) is really in love with Miranda (Suletta) and count on marry her, Caliban (Elan) his just searching to take her virginity.
Suletta is probably also like Caliban, since I don’t believe she’s 100% human.
This would explain why Elan and Suletta are also similar in a lot of aspect.
Caliban and Ariel (Suletta and Aerial) are both servant of Prospero (Prospera).
Caliban also have struggle to speak, and Suletta difficulties to speak remind me of him.
But the thing is, actually, Guel is also a bit Caliban in his own way.
As much Miorine is Miranda sometimes, and Delling is Prospero,
Guel is actually a servant of his father and his considered as the "monster/failure".
Guel is supposed to be the king Alonso’s Jester, Trinculo, and so far he has been treat like the "risible son"who keep failing.
He has attended to force himself in Miorine life also, by intruding her beloved greenhouse and by attending duel to possess her.
Caliban like Guel, is searching for a fair master, more than power.
At the end of the book, Caliban recognised his mistake and ask for forgiveness, so I’m expecting Guel to end up being a good guy in the story. He will probably turn against his own master (his dad) and found a new master to serve.
Shaddiq is supposed to be Stefano, one of the character who try to take down Prospero.
He also searching to marry Miranda, (here Miorine) by killing her dad Prospero (here Delling).
Stefano is supposed to be the new master of Caliban in the book but I don’t see Guel/Shaddiq, or Elan/Shaddiq become the new slave/master.
If Guel is also Caliban, he will probably found his new master in the Earth house of the benerit group (probably member of Gund-Arm)
About Elan, Miorine asked him to join the new Gund-Arm company, witch makes him also the new "servant" of Prospera’s plan.
GW and T are similar in term of characters but also plot, even if I do think GW follow its own path and interpretation.
I also think some characters from GW have double character meaning, and make the plot way more complex than the original one from Shakespeare.
At the end I also think all the kids are manipulated by their own parents, to achieve their goal.
I wish we could have a happy ending, where at least the kid are forgiven for their mistakes and free from their chains, like Caliban and Ariel are in the book, but I’m not really optimistic about it. The only thing we can maybe hope for is Suletta and Miorine getting married, but will they make them, this is an other story…
Oh and if it’s not happening, well I will keep to feed the entire Suletta/Miorine fandom anyway lol
Thanks for reading my 2am thought !
