ACT 5

Question 1

MAGIC AND ILLUSION/GENDER AND POWER: The Masque, the goddesses and Miranda

Question 2

POWER/MAGIC AND ILLUSION: Alonso when he realises son is alive

Answer 2

“The affliction of my mind amends”
FANTASY AND REVOCABILITY
- Prospero and the text giving Alonso the gift of comfort
- shift from tragedy to comedy
- tragedy is irrevocable
- Macbeth “WHAT’S DONE CANNOT BE UNDONE” (in rough wording)

Question 3

Renunciation speech: MORALITY: Violent imagery - Prospero

Answer 3

SCT 5 SCENE 1
“Mutinous winds (…) roaring war (…) dread rattling thunder (…) waked their sleepers”
Misuse of magic - wrong doings

Question 4

GENDER/EDUCATION - Miranda sees men

Answer 4

Act 5.1
“How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in’t!”
Idealism, innocent, naive
Contrast to darker reality of events that have taken place, illusion vs reality

Question 5

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Answer 5

ACT 5.1
“The rarer action is in virtue rather than in vengeance.”
P’s shift from desire to forgiveness - redemption and moral superiority of mercy over vengeance

Question 6

Miranda and Ferdinand playing chess

Answer 6

“Sweet lord, you play me false”
“No, my dearest love,/i would not for the world”

Stichomythia
DYNASTIC MARRRAIGE
Ominous of marrraige? Element of realism? All relationships are for power?
Interesting tableaux… union of 2 kingdoms
MICROCOSM OF POWER GAMES