Critics Flashcards
Barton - The storm contains no hint.
The storm contains no hint of the marvellous or extraordinary
Barton - The normal Social Responses.
The normal social responses have been dislocated
Coleridge - A Lively ____________ of the ______
A lively commencement of the story
Coleridge - Never puts habitual scorn in the ________ of other than ____ ___
Never puts habitual scorn in the mouths of other than bad men
Todd - Trinculo and Stephano’s role
Trinculo’s role is combining with Stephano in providing comic relief
Todd - Ariel’s successes
Prospero takes pleasure in Ariel’s successes
Todd - Destiny
Prospero controls the destiny of the other characters
Todd - Body, not mind
Only Caliban’s body is enslaved
Todd - Miranda’s outward beauty
Miranda’s outward beauty is a reflection of her inner merit
Todd - Purified and repentent
Alonso emerges from the experience as purified and repentent
Todd - Based on folly
Stephano’s murder plot is based on folly rather than evil
Riga - Beneficent kindly figure
Prospero can be viewed as a beneficent kindly figure
Kozinsky - Tyrant
Prospero is a selfish and vengeful tyrant
Westlund - Deeply subjective
Prospero is a deeply subjective character
O’Toole - Caliban’s language
Caliban’s language is that of a slave who binds himself to his master
Mason - Traditional power models
Shakespeare is indicating alternatives to traditional power models
Beck - The perfect plan
Prospero is an all knowing character with the perfect plan in place
Jaimeson - Two sides
Ariel and Caliban represent two sides of Prospero’s personality
Tanner - Venom
All the venom on Prospero’s island is secreted by men
Tanner - Miranda’s pity
Miranda’s pity must be innate as there is no-one to teach it to her
Tanner - The real monsters
The real monsters of the island are Sebastian and Antonio
Adams - Comic and incompetent
Stephano and Trinculo are comic and incompetent
Garbar - Reality
A place where reality is transformed
Chaudhury - His Desired End
Caliban appeals to Stephano to achieve his desired end
Delvin - Master
Caliban is master of the situation
Haddon - Funny monster
Stephano is the real monster
Moseley - Discord (mod)
[With reference to the masque celebration] - Despite this harmony, there is still discord on the island
Moseley - Juxtaposition
The purity of the masque juxtaposed with the impure conspiracy to seize power
Moseley - Far more repulsive are we
Stephano and Trinculo are far more repulsive than Caliban
Moseley - Saying the unsayable
A masque is a means of saying the unsayable
Moseley - A good marriage
Prospero presents the idea of a good marriage
Moseley - Pronounce his blessing
It is an elaborate way to pronounce his blessing on the couple
Moseley - Education
An example of how the play concerns itself with education
Andrew Green - Major source of power
Prospero is the major source of power within the Tempest
Andrew Green - Composer of the events
He [Prospero] can be seen as the composer of the events of the play
Andrew Green - Magical arts
They find themselves helpless in the face of his magical arts
Andrew Green - Thunderously orchestrated
The mighty storm is thus a thunderously orchestrated work of art
Andrew Green - A sadistic quality
At times the music and sounds Prospero invokes takes on a sadistic quality
Andrew Green - Power-Struggle
Ugly nature of power-struggle within politics
Andrew Green - Mystery and Confusion
The strange power of music to control adds to the sense of mystery and confusion
Andrew Green - Strange Melancholy
Prospero remains a figure of strange melancholy
Bradshaw - Psychic journey
The tempest is his [Prospero’s] story, his psychic journey of self-transformation
Mcdonald - All kinds power, P, P & C
to listen to the Tempests language is to become deeply skeptical about the operation of all kinds of power - poetic, political and critical too
Sir Peter Hall - Most blasphemous play. Playing God and performing witchcraft.
The most blasphemous play that Shakespeare ever wrote… Is about a man on an island who is allowed to play God and who doesn’t just dabble in witchcraft, but actually performs it
De Grazia - Sorceress and Magician are driven by the same passion.
Not only are their histories similar and their powers interchangeable but both sorceress and magician are driven by the same passion - anger
