Act 3, Scene 2 162 Flashcards
Notes
Comic scene and duo, parallels Act 2 Scene 2.
Murderous subplot.
Trinculo pp 162
“If th’other two brained like is. the state totters”- “state totters”- social critique of government and political system.
notes pp 165
Shifting of chain of being.
Stephano- 1. Caliban- 2. Trincluo- 3.
Revising the corruption of power.
notes pp 171
Caliban echoes colonialism, raised with Italian ideals, the Italian wine is indoctrinating Caliban.
Caliban pp 170
“Having first seiz’d his book”- Violent suggestion suggests Prospero’s lack of power.
“Remember first to possess his books, for without them He’s but a sot”- Draws parallel between humanity and equality.
“Which, when he has a house, he’ll deck withal”- Back to Italy.
Caliban pp 170 about M
“Ay, lord, she will become thy bed.”- ugly, vulgar commodification with animalistic connotations. Metaphor. Reflects sexist ideologies of the era.
Stephano pp 172
“His daughter and I will be king and queen”- sexism, Caliban in the ascendant position- disrupts chain of being. Ao3- sycophancy of the Jacobean court.