My Heart is The Tempest Q&A Session 6

In what way is your version of Sycorax connected to Shakespeare’s original version of the same character?

Though very young and naive, my own version of Sycorax is also a witch. This means she is potentially endowed with extreme powers helping her bend the world to her will, her thoughts, actions and motives. These powers may have nothing to do with, or go completely beyond, the common perception of what “good” and “evil” represent. Like the foul energy she embodies in Shakespeare’s The Tempest, in my novella Sycorax nurtures her own darkness to become an anti-heroine of a sort, thus also making selfish, questionable choices. Despite the romantic notions we might have on witches, things may get unpleasant for everyone who stands in their way because, to use Shakespeare’s words in Macbeth, “fair is foul, foul is fair”, thus darkness is light and light is darkness, each containing the seed for the other to wax then wane.