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

Question 7

Prospero confesses that he uses “rough magic”

Answer 7

Euphemism for dark magic
Prospero himself needs to be punished because his secret studies might have edged into something unholy

If you can bring back the dead to life, ABROGATED himself to godlike powers
Sin