Act 2, Scene 2, 138

Question 1

Notes

Answer 1

Log is echoed in 3,1.
Revenge is a continued theme.
Introduces the comedic duo- Stephan and trinculo as lower order characters.
Island detatched from political and courtly structuresa ‘tabula vesa’.
Chain of being shifts.

Question 2

Caliban- pp 138.

Answer 2

Soliloquy- honest thoughts.
‘And yet I needs must curse’- wants Prospero to be punished.
Loaded with how Prospero abuses him, echoes colonialism.

Question 3

pp 51

Question 4

notes pp51.

Answer 4

Early modern theatre- language orientated.
ao3- The freak show/ human zoo, renaissance infamous for expoliting something that isnt the norm.
Social critique of society as a whole.

Question 5

Trinculo, pp 50.

Answer 5

“he smells like a fish, a very ancient and fish-like smell”- Physical attributes of Caliban, unpleasant odour.
“There would this monster make a man; any strange beast there makes a man.”- British are not charitable- critique.
“Legged like a man and his fins like arms”- similie.
Disregard for motives and already thinking like an exploiter.

Question 6

Stephano pp 142.

Answer 6

“should he learn our language”- possessive and disrespectful, civilising mission.
“If I can recover him, and keep him tame and get to Naples with him”- civilising mission and an animalistic depiction of Caliban.
Echoes colonialism.

Question 7

notes pp 147

Answer 7

Chain of being overturned.
Italian identity vs Caliban.
Trincluo- “two Neapolitans ‘scaped”.

Question 8

pp 153 notes.

Answer 8

Ao5 Nuttal- ‘Caliban’s sexual violence is ironically mirrored in Ferdinand’
Difference in the thinking between Stephano and Trinculo.