Act 5 scene 1

Question 1

‘now does my…’

Answer 1

‘now does my project gather to a head’
PROSPERO
-opening line
-what is the project? revenge, repentance, union of Milan and Naples through marriage of Ferdinand and miranda?

Question 2

opening sage directions

Answer 2

{Enter prospero in his magic robes, with Ariel}
-theme of clothes
-symbol of power

Question 3

‘his tears run..’

Answer 3

‘his tears run down his beard like winter drops / from eves of reeds . Your charm so strongly works’em / that is you now beheld then your affections/ would become tender.
ARIEL
-if prospero say their despair he would realise his humanity and feel bad for him
-ARIEL says ‘mine would sire, if I were human’ - Ariel prompts prospero tp choose forgiveness
- ‘and mine shall’ PROSPERO CHOSES TO FORGIVE THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!
-‘GO, release them ariel’

Question 4

‘but this rough …’

Answer 4

‘but this rough magic/ I here abjure’
PROSPERO
-renounces his magic
-recognises his magic as a force for bad not a force for good
-‘ill drown my book’ ‘illl break my staff’

Question 5

what are miranda and Ferdinand playing

Answer 5

{playing at chess}
-symbolic of a game
-prospero is playing chess with them all
-childline, innocent , they are both young

Question 6

how beautious…’

Answer 6

‘how beauteous mankin is! O brave new world / that has such people in’t’
MIRANDA
-innocence
-optomistic outlook
-outer beauty does not = inner purity

Question 7

‘his mother is a ….’

Answer 7

‘his mother is a witch, and one so strong that could control the moon, make flows and ebb’
PROSPERO about Sycorax
-prosperoand Sycorax are parallels only difference is she is a women

Question 8

‘this thing of darkness’

Answer 8

‘this thing of darkness, in / aknowalage mine’
PROSPERO
about Caliban
-prospero has created the evil of caliban
-ownership
-master/ save relationship

Question 9

‘ill be wise…’

Answer 9

‘will be wise hereafter / and seek fro grace’
CALIBAN
-will do what prospero wants out of fear
-has sobered up and come to his senses about worshipping ‘this drunkard for a god’
-still hasn’t asked for freedom
-‘Go , sirrah, to my cell’ giving caliban his cell, giving caliban back his island
GRANTING HIS FREEDOM

Question 10

‘But release me from my….’

Answer 10

But release me from my bands
with the help of your good hands.
Gentle breath of yours my sails
Must fill, or else my project fails,
Which was to please’
PROSPRO
-‘bands’ theatre crew
-gnetle breath is cheers
-his plays where to please the audience

Question 11

‘as you from your crimes…’

Answer 11

‘as you from your crimes would pardoned be, let your indulgence set me free .
PROSPERO
-last line of the play
-asking for applause at the end of the play to end the ‘play or ‘project’