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"The rarer action is / In virtue than in vengeance. They being penitent, / The sole drift of my purpose doth extend / Not a frown further. Go, release them, Ariel / My charms I’ll break, their senses I’ll restore, / And they shall be themselves"(5.1.36-40).

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Answer: The paragraph above is an excerpt from William Shakespeare's The tempest. Act 5 scene 1. In this scene, Prospero the wizard, is speaking to Ariel.

Prospero who is the protagonist of the play is Ariel's master. Ariel is a free spirit who is bound to serve Prospero, who rescued him from a tree in which he was trapped by a witch named Sycorax, who previously inhabited the island

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