CRITICS TEMPEST Flashcards
Devlin - what are A and C to P
“servant” “necessary slave”
Hebron- In controling Caliban, P is
controlling his darker impulses
Hunt- caliban is better than everyone
“natural superiority”
Strachey
“Every man overvaluing his own worth, would be a commander”
Clarke- S& T A&T want brits abroad wanting power
“travellers…eager for power”
Ratnam- not a fan of magic P
“vengeful magician”
Clarke- audiences like spectacle
audiences “delight in the beauty of stage contrivances”
Hebron Prospero is not a perfect magician, but human
“troubled soul” not a “benign sage”
Dee-
“harmony”= kee in magic
Rolph - M and F
“fall in love swiftly and completely”
Brunner- unlike tragedy
“disruption without tragic conclusion”
Bowen- End
“unresolved” and “urgent”
Orgel- repentance
repentance is “largely unachieved”
Pane- Caliban at End
life will be “untroubled”
Soloman- Forgiveness
in his forgiveness, P is “christ-like”
Clarke- Ariel (non-corporeal)
“to be regarded as immaterial”
Devlin (colonial) depicts
depicts “the native” in a “state of dependance”
Hunt- P wants to fix stuff
aims to “create harmony from anarchy”
Ledingham P= driving force
“prospero is not effected by the narrative, he is the narrative”
Riches - what caused his past troubles?
“Vanity… underlines his past misfortunes”
Hunt - Antonio( immoral)
“corrupt”
Clarke- evil/ familiy
“ultimate evil is always represented in the betrayal of the bonds of nature”
Masek - women
“women’s status depended upon that of her family”
Dollimore, A+ P relationship
“avuncular”
Lindley- Ariel (imagination)
“embodiment of imaginative power”
O’tooll- Ariel
“sympathetic”
Hebron
“Prospero is recognisable as a Renaissance Mage”
McEvoy- Ariel (hummanity)
“Ariel’s humanity is greater than his master’s”
Bruner- Caribbean
Reason caliban is drawn on by Caribbean is because they are both “disenfranchises, dispossessed”
Lindley- Island= Ariel’s
“Caliban himself is a colonist on an island which origionally belonged to Ariel”
McFarlane- P= utopia
“godlike” figure who presides over a golden world
Varughese- utopia= impossible
“As long as human’s remain unique in their state of mind, utopia is a mere fantasy”
Moseley
“persistently draws attention to itself as a play”
Coleridge
Pospero is “shakespeare himself”
Williams - unities
unities bring “realism”
Moseley- Masque to bless
way to “pronounce his blessing”
Hunt- reason/ emotion
Prospero “exercises his reason over passions”
Hunt- Masque
“extends through the whole of the tempest”
Hunt- Caliban too far gone
“beyond regeneration”
Browning - S/ T- vulgur
“vulgar products of civilisation”
Hargest- S/T
“not particularly funny”
Mended S/T
“parodying”
Clarke M+P
lack of “natural affinity”
Leiniger- M= colonial
“allegory for ‘softer’ colonialism”
Hunt- P must control
“must be an attentive puppeteer to succeed”
Clarke- caliban= evil
“natural malignity”
Arnold- Antonio did right
“astute”
James I
“monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth”
