Act 1 scene 2

Question 2

how does miranda refer to Prospero

Answer 2

‘if by your art, my dearest father’
- introduction to prospers magic
-shows affection towards Prospero

Question 3

miranda empath

Answer 3

‘O, I have suffered with those that I saw suffer’
-emotinally dramatic
-exclamative

Question 4

miranda ‘heart’

Answer 4

‘O, the cry did knock against my very heart’
-compassionate
-naive?

Question 5

Proper “I have…”

Answer 5

‘I have done nothing but in care of thee’
-protective father

Question 6

prosperos magic

Answer 6

‘my magic garment’
-theme of clothing
-his magic comes from objects
‘[miranda assists Prospero; las his clock aside]’ - switching into is fatherly role

Question 7

prospero assures miranda none of them are hurt

Answer 7

‘No, not so much perdition as an hair’
-biblical allusion to Luke 12:7, God loves us so much all our hairs are numbered’

Question 8

Sit down for…

Answer 8

‘Sit down or thou must know thou father’
-imperative order
-pun, doule meaning
-miranda is dominated by Prospero as she ‘sits down’ showing power imbalance

Question 9

‘obey…’

Answer 9

‘obey and be attentive’
-strict parents
-imperative order
-paranoid

Question 10

‘what sees…’

Answer 10

‘what sees thou else in the dark backward abysm of time’
-rich imagery
-metaphorical
-prospero is dominating the dialogue

Question 11

‘thy mother…’

Answer 11

‘thy mother was a piece of virtue’
-objectifying
-women are spoken for
-she was faithful, didn’t sleep with other men

Question 12

‘being transported…

Answer 12

‘being transported And rapt in secret studies’
-prospero
-Prospero was usurped, not GOOD RULER AS HE SPENT TOO MUCH TIME ON MAGIC

Question 13

‘the ivy…’

Answer 13

‘the ivy which had hid my princely trunk and sucked my verdure out on’t- thou attend’st not!’
PROSPERO
-‘princley’ he thinks highly of himself
-anotonio was the ivy that smothered Prospero and his ruling
-prospero need to be heard

Question 14

‘So dear…’

Answer 14

‘so dear the love my people bore me’
PROSPERO
-arrogant
-deluded and cocky

Question 15

‘O, a cherubin…’

Answer 15

‘O, a cherubin[…] thou didst smile, infused with a fortitude from heaven’
-heavenly connotations
-miranda portrayed of angelic figure

Question 16

‘thou art inclined…’

Answer 16

‘thou art inclined to sleep[…] I know thou canst not choose’
PROSPERO
-controlling father
-is he using his marriage to send her to sleep??

Question 17

‘all hail…’

Answer 17

‘all hail great master, grave sir, hail!
ARIEL
-subservient
-dramatic language

Question 18

Ariel, and…’

Answer 18

‘Ariel, and all his quality’
ARIEL
-3rd person, doesn’t own himself

Question 19

‘the most mighty…’

Answer 19

‘the most. mighty Neptune seem to besiege, and make his bold waves tremble’
ARIEL
-personification
-magic power over nature
-metaphor
-Ariel stage manages illusion of fire

Question 20

‘hell is…’

Answer 20

‘hell is empty and all the devils are here’
ARIEL
-prosperos revenge
-parallel to prosperous banishment
-biblical connotations

Question 21

‘thou foul…’

Answer 21

‘thou foul, malignant thing. hast thou forgot The foul witch Sycorax, who with age and envy Was grown into a hoop? Hast thou forgot her?
PROSPERO
-agressive
-typical portarayal of a witch, she is hinted over and old
-repetition, ranting
-guild tripping
‘that damned witch Sycorax’
‘thou know’st was banished’ parallel to Prospero but she was a women

Question 22

‘into a….’

Answer 22

‘into a cloven pine, within which rift imprisoned thou didst painfully remain A dozen years’
PROSPERO
-Ariel was trapped in a tree for 12 years by Sycorax until Prospero set his free

Question 23

‘save for…’

Answer 23

‘save for the son that she did litter here, A freckled whelp, hag born- not honoured with human shape’
PROSPERO
-caliban a animal, animalistic language
-‘my slave’
-‘poisonous slave, got by the devil himself’

Question 24

‘thou shalt…’

Answer 24

‘thou shalt have cramps, side stitches’
PROSPERO
-uses magic to cause pain

Question 25

‘the islands…’

Answer 25

‘the islands mine by Sycorax my mother, Which thou takes from me’
CALIBAN
-collonilism
-link to his knowledge of the island
-talks in blank verse noble savage

Question 26

‘And then I loved….’

Answer 26

‘and then I loved thee And showed thee all the qualities o’th’isle
CALIBAN
-pathos- contacting easier speech
-feel sorry for him

Question 27

‘for I am….’

Answer 27

‘for I am all the subjects that you have,’
CALIBAN
-mocks prospero for losing his dukedom

Question 28

‘in mine own cell…’

Answer 28

‘in mine own cell, till thou didst seek to violate The hounour of my child’
PROSPERO
-Tried to rape Miranda

Question 29

‘I had peopled….’

Answer 29

‘I had peopled else This isle with calibans’
CALIBAN
-primitve motivation, wants to breed
-start a new race

Question 30

‘BUT THY VILE…’

Answer 30

‘but thy vile race -‘
PROSPERO
-race makes him evil
racist insult

Question 31

‘you taught me….’

Answer 31

‘you taught me lagunage, and my profit on’t / Is I know how to curse. The red plauge rid you / For learning me your language
CALIBAN
-negative connotation
-colonialism
-language

Question 32

‘Full fathom…’

Answer 32

‘full fathom five thy father lies thy father lies / of his bones are coral made / those are pearls that were his eyes’
ARIEL
- Song to Ferdinand
-telling him his father is dead, lying

Question 33

‘I might call him…’

Answer 33

‘I might call him / a thing divine, for nothing natural I ever saw so noble
MIRANDA
-love at first sight
-sematic field of the supernatural
-comes across naive

Question 34

‘heavens!…’

Answer 34

‘heavens!/ I am the best of them that speak the speech’
FERDINAND
-I am the kind now, proving himself
-alonso not actually dead
-usurpation

Question 35

‘this is the third…’

Answer 35

‘this is the third man that e’er I saw ; the first/ that e’er I sighed for.’
MIRANDA
-sheltered life
-parallism, structures echo each other

Question 36

‘leset too light winning…’

Answer 36

‘leset too light winning makes the prize light’
PROSPERO
-needs to make it more difficult for Ferdinand to have miranda, so he will value her more
-worried Ferdinand won’t value her if he wins her too easily
-manipulating them facing in love?
-OBJECTIFICATION OF MIRANDA

Question 37

‘nothing ill…’

Answer 37

‘nothing ill can dwell in such a temple’
MIRANDA
-hyperbolic metaphor
-because he’s beautiful on the outside he must be beautiful on the inside also.
-naive

Question 38

‘hes gentle and…’

Answer 38

‘hes gentle and not fearfil’
MIRANDA
-protecting Ferdinand from prosper so he doesn’t punish him
-compassionate