Finals - Tempest quotes Flashcards
Monstrosity; Act 2, Scene 2
“Were I in
England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man.”
- Trinculo
Monstrosity; Act 3, Scene 2
” “Lord,” quoth he! That a monster should be such a natural!”
- Trinculo
Monstrosity; Act 3, Scene 3
“O, it is monstrous, monstrous:
\ Methought the billows spoke and told me of it;
\ The winds did sing it to me, and the thunder,
\ That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounced
\ The name of Prosper: it did bass my trespass.”
- Alonso
Prospero’s Threats; Act 1, Scene 2
“If thou more murmur’st, I will rend an oak
\ And peg thee in his knotty entrails till
\ Thou hast howled away twelve winters.”
- Prospero
Prospero’s Threats; Act 1, Scene 2
“If thou neglect’st or dost unwillingly
\ What I command, I’ll rack thee with old cramps,
\ Fill all thy bones with aches, make thee roar
\ That beasts shall tremble at thy din.”
- Prospero
Prospero’s Threats; Act 4, Scene 1
“If thou dost break her virgin-knot before
\ All sanctimonious ceremonies may
\ With full and holy rite be ministered,
\ No sweet aspersion shall the heavens let fall
\ To make this contract grow, but barren hate,
\ Sour-eyed disdain, and discord shall bestrew
\ The union of your bed with weeds so loathly
\ That you shall hate it both.”
- Prospero
Obedience and disobedience; Act 1, Scene 2
“I prithee
\ Remember I have done thee worthy service,
\ Told thee no lies, made thee no mistakings, served
\ Without or grudge or grumblings. Thou did promise
\ To bate me a full year.”
Obedience and disobedience; Act 2, Scene 2
“I’ll swear upon that bottle to be thy true
subject, for the liquor is not earthly.”
Obedience and disobedience; Act 3, Scene 1
“I prattle
\ Something too wildly, and my father’s precepts
\ I therein do forget.”
Treason; Act 1, Scene 2
“Mark his [Antonio’s] condition and th’ event. Then tell me
\ If this might be a brother.”
Treason; Act 2, Scene 1
“Th’ occasion speaks thee, and
\ My strong imagination sees a crown
\ Dropping upon thy head. “
Treason; Act 3, Scene 2
Yea, yea, my lord. I’ll yield him [Prospero] thee asleep
Where thou mayst knock a nail into his head.
Wonder/admiration; Act 3, Scene 1
“Admired Miranda!
\ Indeed the top of admiration, worth
\ What’s dearest to th’ world!”
Wonder/admiration; Act 5, Scene 1
“perceive these lords
\ At this encounter do so much admire
\ That they devour their reason and scarce think
\ Their eyes do offices of truth, their words
\ Are natural breath.”
“O wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world
That has such people in ’t!”
