All 10 scenes, by act and beat — from the storm at sea to the magician asking the audience to set him free.
The Tempest is structured as five short acts and an epilogue. Act 1 sets the world: the storm, then the long expository scene at Prospero's cell where Miranda hears for the first time who she is, Ariel reports on the wreck, and Caliban states his claim. Act 2 splits the survivors: Alonso's grieving court on one part of the island, the drunken butler and jester meeting Caliban on another. Act 3 is the play's hinge — Ferdinand and Miranda pledge their love, Caliban plots Prospero's murder, and Ariel as a harpy accuses the men of sin. Act 4 is the betrothal masque and Prospero's most-quoted speech. Act 5 is the renunciation and the forgiving. The epilogue is Prospero alone, addressing the audience.
The wreck, and the long scene where Prospero finally tells Miranda who she is.
A ship in a storm. The Boatswain orders the noblemen below — the waves care nothing for a king's name. The mariners come up crying "all lost." The ship splits. The play opens by appearing to drown its entire cast.
The play's longest scene. Prospero finally tells Miranda the story of their exile, summons Ariel, curses Caliban, and stages the meeting between Miranda and Ferdinand. Love at first sight; Prospero pretends to disapprove and sets Ferdinand to hauling logs.
Alonso's court grieves; Caliban meets a drunk butler and decides he is a god.
The shipwrecked court on another beach. Gonzalo sketches his utopian commonwealth; Antonio and Sebastian mock him. Ariel puts most of the party to sleep. Antonio talks Sebastian into murdering the sleeping king. Ariel wakes Gonzalo before the swords come down.
Caliban hides under a cloak from a downpour. Trinculo crawls in under the same cloak. Stephano arrives drunk with a barrel of wine. Caliban, tasting wine for the first time, decides Stephano is a god and pledges himself as his servant. A drunken song of freedom.
Ferdinand and Miranda pledge; Caliban plots; the banquet vanishes.
Ferdinand carries logs for Prospero; Miranda slips out and offers to do it for him; they refuse each other tenderly and exchange vows. Prospero, watching unseen, blesses the engagement and returns to his book.
Caliban, Stephano, and Trinculo plot Prospero's murder — but Caliban warns to seize his books first. Ariel, invisible, sets them quarrelling. Caliban, calming a frightened Stephano, delivers the play's most beautiful speech: "the isle is full of noises."
A magical banquet appears in front of the starving courtiers; as they reach for it, Ariel descends as a harpy, the food vanishes, and the harpy names their crime against Prospero. Alonso, Antonio, and Sebastian are reduced to penitence and panic. Prospero, watching unseen, calls the trick "bravely performed."
A betrothal pageant interrupted by the memory of a murder plot.
Prospero presents Ferdinand and Miranda with a wedding masque of goddesses. Halfway through he remembers Caliban's plot and ends it. The "our revels now are ended" speech follows. He sets glittering clothes as a trap for the conspirators; spirit-hounds chase them off.
Prospero breaks his staff, forgives his enemies, and reclaims his dukedom.
Prospero forgives every man who wronged him, breaks his staff, and drowns his book. Ferdinand is restored to Alonso; Miranda gives the "brave new world" line. The ship is whole. Caliban is brought in chains and promises to seek grace. Ariel is freed. The play turns toward Milan.
The magician alone on stage, asking the audience to release him.
Prospero alone on stage, his magic gone, asking the audience for the breath of their applause. The man who has spent the play binding and releasing others now needs to be released. Often read as Shakespeare's own farewell to the theater.