What does the following quote mean? "He will exchange blindness for sight and poverty for riches."

He is getting what he always wanted.

Explanation:

This quote means that he exchanges what he does not want for something he does. Blindness means that you are lacking sight. Poverty means you are lacking money. Exchanging one for the other means you are getting out of a position of lack and stepping into abundance. You are gaining what you did not have previously.

it ends with a marriage, but also with prospero giving up his power.

the tempest is a play written by william shakespeare between 1610-1611, it narrates the story of prospero a magician that sets a storm to wreck a ship, this sets the story to kill the king of naples. while it is a romantic style play, it isn´t traditional because of the ending, it end with the marriage and the magician giving up his powers.

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