Act 3 Sc. 1

Question 1

Summary:

Answer 1

main point of the play in which the subplots begin to intersect/meet .
Main evidence of Prospero’s orchestration as stage director

Question 2

Stage direction: Enter Ferdinand bearing a log

Answer 2

• Ferdinand - following the courtly love process
• displays extent of Prospero’s command - his control & authority over the island overturns social norms as Ferdinand assumes the role of a servant = demeaning for a prince
• cyclical - Caliban mimics this behaviour - demonstrates P’s utter control

Question 3

‘I’ll bear your logs the while’

Answer 3

• Miranda as a subversive feminist figure - breaks social norms of the meek & weak female
• her experience on the island has sheltered her from societal expectations

Question 4

Ferd: ‘No precious creature…I’d rather crack my sinews, break my back’

Answer 4

AO1/2: doting, caring relationship depicted as F worries for M’s honour , abiding by jacobean terms of courtly love as he recognises that he must earn the right to Miranda’s hand in marriage lest they both undergo social disrepute.
‘crack my sinews…break my back’ - arduous, labourious work which tests the limit of his physicality - he would rather inflict pain upon himself than have M face social criticism

• Although = ‘precious creature’ assigns a ‘value’ to Miranda which perhaps demonstrates that F like all other men only sees M for her sexual/physical worth.
  AO5: ‘very purity of love’

Question 5

‘Do love, prize, honour you’

Answer 5

AO1/2:
affectionate, takes on the tone of wedding vows.
Despite this however, the pervasive attitudes of the Patriarchal Jacobean society begins to creep in as sense of male ownership seen in ‘prize’.