Act 2 Scene 1

Question 1

Sebastian: ‘He receives…’

Answer 1

‘…comfort like cold porridge’

Question 2

Sebastian: ‘Look, he’s…’

Answer 2

‘…winding up the watch of his wit. By and by it will strike’

Question 3

Antonio: Use of listing and pacy minor sentences

Answer 3

‘A cockerel.’
‘A laughter.’
‘Ha, ha, ha!’

Question 4

Adrian and Sebastian: The air

Answer 4

Adrian: ‘The air breathes upon us here most sweetly.’
Sebastian: ‘As if it had lungs, and rotten ones.’

Question 5

Gonzalo: Lines about the nature of the Island

Answer 5

• ‘Here is everything advantageous to life’

- ‘How lush and lusty the grass looks! How green!’

Question 6

Sebastian: Gonzalo and truth

Answer 6

‘No, he doth but mistake the truth totally.’

Question 7

Gonzalo: Garments

Answer 7

• ‘…their freshness and gloss, being rather new-dyed than stained with salt water’
• ‘Methinks our garments are now as fresh as when we put them on first…’

Question 8

Sebastian: About Claribel’s marriage

Answer 8

'’Twas a sweet marriage’

Question 9

Antonio: Widow Dido

Answer 9

‘Widow? A pox o’ that. How came that widow in? Widow Dido!’

Question 10

Antonio: Gonzalo’s pockets

Answer 10

‘If but one of his pockets could speak, would it not say he lies?’

Question 11

Antonio: Gonzalo’s word

Answer 11

‘His word is more than the miraculous harp’

Question 12

Sebastian and Antonio: Widow Dido

Answer 12

Sebastian: ‘Bate, I beseech you, widow Dido.’
Antonio: O, widow Dido? Ay, widow Dido.’

Question 13

Alonso: First lines, violent imagery, longing for Ferdinand

Answer 13

‘You cram these words into mine ears against / The stomach of my sense…what strange fish/ Hath made his meal on thee?’

Question 14

Sebastian: Vicious and blaming Alonso

Answer 14

Alonso: ‘No, no, he’s gone’
Sebastian: ‘Sir, you may thank yourself for this great loss…We have lost your son, / I fear, for ever…/ The fault’s your own’

Question 15

Gonzalo: Sycophantic response to Sebastian’s bitterness

Answer 15

‘My lord Sebastian / The truth you speak doth lack some gentleness … you rub the sore / When you should bring the plaster.’

Question 16

Gonzalo, Antonio, Sebastian: ‘Foul’ and ‘Fool’ pun

Answer 16

Gonzalo: ‘It is a foul weather in us all’
Sebastian: ‘Foul weather?’
Antonio: ‘Very foul’

Question 17

Gonzalo: Speech based on Montaigne’s ‘Of Cannibals’

Answer 17

‘I’th’ commonwealth I would by contraries / Execute all things, for no kind of traffic / Would I admit; no name of magistrate…(no) riches, poverty, and use of service…’

Question 18

Sebastian and Antonio: Mocking Gonzalo

Answer 18

Sebastian: ‘Yet he would be king on’t’
Antonio: ‘The latter end of his commonwealth forgets the beginning’

Question 19

Alonso: His mind

Answer 19

‘I wish mine eyes / Would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts’

Question 20

Alonso: The charm that sends them to sleep

Answer 20

‘Wondrous heavy’

Question 21

Sebastian: Questioning why him and Antonio haven’t been affected by the spell

Answer 21

‘Why / Doth it not then our eyelids sink?’

Question 22

Antonio: Describing the spell they are under

Answer 22

‘They fell together all, as by consent; / They dropp’d as by a thunder-stroke. What might, worthy Sebastian, O what might-? No more.’

Question 23

Antonio: Key line - crown

Answer 23

‘I see it in thy face, what thou shouldst be…/ My strong imagination sees a crown/ Dropping upon thy head’

Question 24

Sebastian: Line following the crown line

Answer 24

‘What? Art thou waking?’

Question 25

Sebastian: Speech with a semantic field of sleep

Answer 25

‘It is a sleepy language…What is it thou didst stay? This is a strange repose, to be asleep / With eyes wide open - standing, speaking, moving, / And yet so fast asleep?

Question 26

Antonio: Manipulative language

Answer 26

• ‘You must be so too, if heed me; which to do / Trebles thee o’er’
• ‘Most often do so near the bottom run / By their own fear or sloth.’

Question 27

Sebastian and Antonio: Water references

Answer 27

Sebastian: ‘Well, I am standing water?’
Antonio: ‘I’ll teach you how to flow.’

Question 28

Antonio: Sleep

Answer 28

‘Thou let’st thy fortune sleep - die, rather; wink’st / Whiles thou art waking.’

Question 29

Antonio: Describing Gonzalo

Answer 29

‘This lord of weak remembrance’

‘He’s a spirit of persuasion’

Question 30

Antonio: Hope

Answer 30

‘O, out of that no hope / What great hope have you! No hope that way is / Another way so high a hope even / Ambition cannot pierce a wink beyond’

Question 31

Antonio: Controlling fate

Answer 31

• ‘And by that destiny, to perform an act / Whereof what’s past is prologue, what to come / In yours and my discharge.’
• ‘And how does your content / Tender your own good fortune?’

Question 32

Antonio: Talking about Prospero

Answer 32

‘True; / And look how well my garments sit upon me, / Much feater than before. My brother’s servants / Were then my fellows, now they are my men.’

Question 33

Sebastian and Antonio: Conscience

Answer 33

Sebastian: ‘But for your conscience?’
Antonio: ‘Ay, sir, where lies that?…Twenty consciences that stand twixt me and Milan, candied be they, and melt ere they molest!’

Question 34

Antonio: Sword

Answer 34

‘…with this obedient steel, three inches of it’

Question 35

Antonio: Superiority complex

Answer 35

‘For all the rest, / They’ll take suggestion as a cat laps milk; They’ll tell the clock to any business that / We say befits the hour.’

Question 36

Ariel: Conspiracy

Answer 36

‘One-eyed conspiracy’

Question 37

Sebastian: Lying

Answer 37

‘…we heard a hollow burst of bellowing, / Like bulls, or rather lions - did’t not wake you? It struck mine ear most terribly.’

Question 38

Antonio: Hyperbole

Answer 38

‘O, ‘twas a din to fright a monster’s ear, / To make an earthquake. Sure, it was the roar / Of a whole herd of lions.’

Question 39

Gonzalo: Beasts

Answer 39

‘Heavens keep him from these beasts! For he is sure i’ th’ island’

Question 40

Ariel: Last lines, rhyming couplet

Answer 40

‘Prospero my lord shall know what I have done. / So, king, go safely on to seek thy son.’