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English Literature - The Tempest > Critics > Flashcards

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Barton - The storm contains no hint.

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The storm contains no hint of the marvellous or extraordinary

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Barton - The normal Social Responses.

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The normal social responses have been dislocated

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Coleridge - A Lively ____________ of the ______

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A lively commencement of the story

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Coleridge - Never puts habitual scorn in the ________ of other than ____ ___

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Never puts habitual scorn in the mouths of other than bad men

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Todd - Trinculo and Stephano’s role

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Trinculo’s role is combining with Stephano in providing comic relief

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Todd - Ariel’s successes

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Prospero takes pleasure in Ariel’s successes

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Todd - Destiny

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Prospero controls the destiny of the other characters

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Todd - Body, not mind

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Only Caliban’s body is enslaved

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Todd - Miranda’s outward beauty

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Miranda’s outward beauty is a reflection of her inner merit

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Todd - Purified and repentent

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Alonso emerges from the experience as purified and repentent

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Todd - Based on folly

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Stephano’s murder plot is based on folly rather than evil

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Riga - Beneficent kindly figure

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Prospero can be viewed as a beneficent kindly figure

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Kozinsky - Tyrant

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Prospero is a selfish and vengeful tyrant

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Westlund - Deeply subjective

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Prospero is a deeply subjective character

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O’Toole - Caliban’s language

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Caliban’s language is that of a slave who binds himself to his master

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Mason - Traditional power models

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Shakespeare is indicating alternatives to traditional power models

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Beck - The perfect plan

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Prospero is an all knowing character with the perfect plan in place

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Jaimeson - Two sides

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Ariel and Caliban represent two sides of Prospero’s personality

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Tanner - Venom

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All the venom on Prospero’s island is secreted by men

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Tanner - Miranda’s pity

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Miranda’s pity must be innate as there is no-one to teach it to her

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Tanner - The real monsters

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The real monsters of the island are Sebastian and Antonio

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Adams - Comic and incompetent

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Stephano and Trinculo are comic and incompetent

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Garbar - Reality

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A place where reality is transformed

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Chaudhury - His Desired End

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Caliban appeals to Stephano to achieve his desired end

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Delvin - Master

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Caliban is master of the situation

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Haddon - Funny monster

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Stephano is the real monster

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Moseley - Discord (mod)

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[With reference to the masque celebration] - Despite this harmony, there is still discord on the island

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Moseley - Juxtaposition

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The purity of the masque juxtaposed with the impure conspiracy to seize power

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Moseley - Far more repulsive are we

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Stephano and Trinculo are far more repulsive than Caliban

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Moseley - Saying the unsayable

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A masque is a means of saying the unsayable

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Moseley - A good marriage

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Prospero presents the idea of a good marriage

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Moseley - Pronounce his blessing

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It is an elaborate way to pronounce his blessing on the couple

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Moseley - Education

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An example of how the play concerns itself with education

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Andrew Green - Major source of power

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Prospero is the major source of power within the Tempest

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Andrew Green - Composer of the events

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He [Prospero] can be seen as the composer of the events of the play

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Andrew Green - Magical arts

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They find themselves helpless in the face of his magical arts

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Andrew Green - Thunderously orchestrated

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The mighty storm is thus a thunderously orchestrated work of art

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Andrew Green - A sadistic quality

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At times the music and sounds Prospero invokes takes on a sadistic quality

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Andrew Green - Power-Struggle

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Ugly nature of power-struggle within politics

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Andrew Green - Mystery and Confusion

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The strange power of music to control adds to the sense of mystery and confusion

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Andrew Green - Strange Melancholy

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Prospero remains a figure of strange melancholy

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Bradshaw - Psychic journey

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The tempest is his [Prospero’s] story, his psychic journey of self-transformation

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Mcdonald - All kinds power, P, P & C

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to listen to the Tempests language is to become deeply skeptical about the operation of all kinds of power - poetic, political and critical too

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Sir Peter Hall - Most blasphemous play. Playing God and performing witchcraft.

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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

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De Grazia - Sorceress and Magician are driven by the same passion.

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Not only are their histories similar and their powers interchangeable but both sorceress and magician are driven by the same passion - anger

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