alonso Flashcards
responsibility
when confronted with his responsibility, Alonso is genuinely repentant for the pain he caused Prospero in the past.
a good father
Alonso’s deep grief when he thinks his son is dead help to construct an image of Alonso as a good and loving father who has made mistakes in the past.
tyrannical father
forced Claribel to marry “an African”
it was only her “obedience” to her father that outweighed her “loathness” to marry
Claribel to marry an African
the Napolitans’ objections were racist
“loose her to an African”
starts to regret his daughter’s marriage
“had never/ Married my daughter there”
the reason for this grief seems to be his belief that Ferdinand has drowned
Claribel in Africa
seems as good as dead as she is now living “ten leagues beyond man’s life”
patriarchal ideology
in Shakespeare’s plays is highlighted by how infrequently Caliban is mentioned
the sorrow of Claribel’s situation
is only used when the courtiers reflect on their own misfortunes
Gonzalo observes that
Claribel did “find at Tunis” a husband, while Ferdinand “found a wife”
the same verb to describe the two contrasting marriages is odd, as one is a love-match and the other is an apparently loveless marriage
grieves for drowned Ferdinand
“deeper than e’er plummet sounded”
Prospero later says “deeper than did ever plummet sound”
the repetition of the poetic idea emphasises the two characters need to symbolically bury the discord’s of the past
