Act 3, Scene 3 176 Flashcards
The Harpy.
- Ariel appears theatrically disguised.
- Precise stage directions suggests a form of stage trickery.
- Part woman, part vulture.
- Bad omen, bringer of death or torment.
- Avenging figure.
Ao3- classical education of Shakespeare.
Structure.
Structurally the play is into its second half, revenge or repetentance is the outcome.
Alonso pp 176
“Sit down and rest. Even here I will put off my hope and keep it No longer for my flatterer”- Metaphor for personal hope- rejected father.
“sea mocks”- man vs nature, personification.
[Enter several strange shapes, bringing in a banquet, and dance about it with gentle actions of salutations and inviting the King etc. to eat, they depart]
Adds to the magic ambiance.
A05- Bale a ‘set piece’ a real theatrical, something visually impacting.
‘shapes’- dehumanising.
‘banquet’- last supper, biblical reference to betrayal.
the courtly party see the abundance of the island, associated with the sin of gluttony.
Sebastian- “A living drollery”
Perturbed, jaded.
Trademark mockery.
Victim to the delusion of the island.
Gonzalo- “Who, though they are of monstrous shape, yet note, their manners are more gentle, kind”
Mirrors Montaigne ‘barbarous behaviour isn’t determined by ethnicity’, echoing ideas about difference.
[ Thunder and lightning. Enter ARIEL, like a harpy, claps his wings upon the table, and with a quaint device the banquet vanishes]
‘Thunder and lightning’- pathetic fallacy forebodes.
Ariel’s dialogue. 183-4
1. “Three men of sin”
2. “the never-surfeited sea Hath caus’d to belch up you,”
3. “Your swords are now too massy for your strengths”
4. “The powers delaying, not forgetting, have incens’d the seas and shores- yea, all the creatures- Agaisnt your peace”
- Biblical reference to Alonso, Sebastian and Antonio.
- The sea is repulsed, poisonous power of nature acting like a force of justice.
- Futility, the chain of being disrupted. Ariel is presented as a powerful threat on the top pf the chain of being.
- Cool rage rather than a temper, ecocritical perspective and overturns the colonial forces by using nature as the oppresser.
Prospero’s dialogue 184
1. “My high charms work, And these, mine enemies are all knit up.”
2. “lov’d darling”
- Egotistical lines, brags about the extent of his power and wrath on his enemies, metaphor presents him as a villainous mastermind.
- Sinister, reversal of a comforting saying displays Prospero’s clear intentions, he is happy to be punishing them. Baits Miranda as an unnamed possession rather than a person.”
A05- McEvoy “ Prospero acts like a theatre directer at many points”
Gonzalo- “All three of them are desperate: their great guilt, Like posion given to work a great time after, Now ‘gins to bite the spirits”
Recognition of their faults and displays a concern for them. Establishes him as a foil of Prospero an the incarnation of Christian values.
