act 1 scene 1 quotes

Question 1

act 1 opening stage direction

Answer 1

‘a tempestuous noise of. thunder and lightning’

Question 2

what verse does the play open in?

Answer 2

blank verse (indicates upper class)
-iambic pentameter

Question 3

boatswain roarers

Answer 3

‘what cares these roarers for the name of king”
-power of nature
-rhetorical question

Question 4

gonzalo defending boatswain

Answer 4

‘his complexion is perfect gallows[..] make the rope of his destiny our cable’
-proverb:he that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned
-gonzalo is optimistic
-introduced as a nice character,
-speakin gin prose so breakdown of higherarchy

Question 5

boatswain rude to Antonio and Sebastian

Answer 5

‘have you a mind to sink?

Question 6

Sebastian response to boatswain

Answer 6

‘you bawling, blasphemous, uncharitable dog’
-inverted higherarchy
-alliteration

Question 7

Sebastian an Antonios display of disloyalty to the king

Answer 7

Antonia- “let’s all sink wi’th’king. \Sebatsian- ‘ lets take leave of him’
-antonio would die for the king
-sebastain will leave the king, even though its his own brother