Act 2 Scene 1 Flashcards
Sebastian: ‘He receives…’
‘…comfort like cold porridge’
Sebastian: ‘Look, he’s…’
‘…winding up the watch of his wit. By and by it will strike’
Antonio: Use of listing and pacy minor sentences
‘A cockerel.’
‘A laughter.’
‘Ha, ha, ha!’
Adrian and Sebastian: The air
Adrian: ‘The air breathes upon us here most sweetly.’
Sebastian: ‘As if it had lungs, and rotten ones.’
Gonzalo: Lines about the nature of the Island
- ‘Here is everything advantageous to life’
- ‘How lush and lusty the grass looks! How green!’
Sebastian: Gonzalo and truth
‘No, he doth but mistake the truth totally.’
Gonzalo: Garments
- ‘…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…’
Sebastian: About Claribel’s marriage
'’Twas a sweet marriage’
Antonio: Widow Dido
‘Widow? A pox o’ that. How came that widow in? Widow Dido!’
Antonio: Gonzalo’s pockets
‘If but one of his pockets could speak, would it not say he lies?’
Antonio: Gonzalo’s word
‘His word is more than the miraculous harp’
Sebastian and Antonio: Widow Dido
Sebastian: ‘Bate, I beseech you, widow Dido.’
Antonio: O, widow Dido? Ay, widow Dido.’
Alonso: First lines, violent imagery, longing for Ferdinand
‘You cram these words into mine ears against / The stomach of my sense…what strange fish/ Hath made his meal on thee?’
Sebastian: Vicious and blaming Alonso
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’
Gonzalo: Sycophantic response to Sebastian’s bitterness
‘My lord Sebastian / The truth you speak doth lack some gentleness … you rub the sore / When you should bring the plaster.’
Gonzalo, Antonio, Sebastian: ‘Foul’ and ‘Fool’ pun
Gonzalo: ‘It is a foul weather in us all’
Sebastian: ‘Foul weather?’
Antonio: ‘Very foul’
Gonzalo: Speech based on Montaigne’s ‘Of Cannibals’
‘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…’
Sebastian and Antonio: Mocking Gonzalo
Sebastian: ‘Yet he would be king on’t’
Antonio: ‘The latter end of his commonwealth forgets the beginning’
Alonso: His mind
‘I wish mine eyes / Would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts’
Alonso: The charm that sends them to sleep
‘Wondrous heavy’
Sebastian: Questioning why him and Antonio haven’t been affected by the spell
‘Why / Doth it not then our eyelids sink?’
Antonio: Describing the spell they are under
‘They fell together all, as by consent; / They dropp’d as by a thunder-stroke. What might, worthy Sebastian, O what might-? No more.’
Antonio: Key line - crown
‘I see it in thy face, what thou shouldst be…/ My strong imagination sees a crown/ Dropping upon thy head’
Sebastian: Line following the crown line
‘What? Art thou waking?’
Sebastian: Speech with a semantic field of sleep
‘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?
Antonio: Manipulative language
- ‘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.’
Sebastian and Antonio: Water references
Sebastian: ‘Well, I am standing water?’
Antonio: ‘I’ll teach you how to flow.’
Antonio: Sleep
‘Thou let’st thy fortune sleep - die, rather; wink’st / Whiles thou art waking.’
Antonio: Describing Gonzalo
‘This lord of weak remembrance’
‘He’s a spirit of persuasion’
Antonio: Hope
‘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’
Antonio: Controlling fate
- ‘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?’
Antonio: Talking about Prospero
‘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.’
Sebastian and Antonio: Conscience
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!’
Antonio: Sword
‘…with this obedient steel, three inches of it’
Antonio: Superiority complex
‘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.’
Ariel: Conspiracy
‘One-eyed conspiracy’
Sebastian: Lying
‘…we heard a hollow burst of bellowing, / Like bulls, or rather lions - did’t not wake you? It struck mine ear most terribly.’
Antonio: Hyperbole
‘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.’
Gonzalo: Beasts
‘Heavens keep him from these beasts! For he is sure i’ th’ island’
Ariel: Last lines, rhyming couplet
‘Prospero my lord shall know what I have done. / So, king, go safely on to seek thy son.’
