HagSeed - Tempest Flashcards
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INTRO
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- Thesis in response to the question syllabus bingo “responder”
Link the texts together (circular how interplay between eachother) – Hagseed helps readers gain a better understanding of ‘The Tempest’
- Improsonment through setting Hag-seed in a prison
- How Miranda is stranded with Prospero in Hag-Seed she is dead so she can’t leave him
- Caliban is socially inferior and socially imprisoned as he is less intelligent
- Contexts – compare the contexts of both contexts and how the texts give insights into these
Post modernists:
- Tell a variety of stories from a variety of perspectives
- Play with artistic form: playfulness
- Love to expose the artificial or constructed nature of their art
- Blending high art with popular culture
- Linked text to context
- Oscillates between the two, comprehensiv
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Quotes - Hagseed
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- “Let’s make magic!”
- “If the words are not perfect, the pitch exact, the modulation delicately adjusted, the spell fails.”
- “It was like an enormous black cloud boiling up over the horizon.” – allusion to tempest comparing the tempest in the play to Felix’s grief
- “Twist reality until it twangled”
- “Miranda must be released from her glass coffin”
- “There was Felix, alone in his neglected corner reading the Google alerts” – Allusion
- “The thing about Shakespeare, he would add, is there’s never just one answer”
- “The cloak of his defeat, the dead husk of his drowned self.”
- “pearly eyes twinkle at him”
- “He’ll break his staff, he’ll drown his book, because it’s time for the younger people to take over.”
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Quotes - The Tempest
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- “Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
- “Me, poor man, my library, Was dukedom large enough.”
- “I’ll break my staff, / Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, / And deeper than did ever plummet sound / I’ll drown my book.”
- “How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, that has such people in it!”
- “Thou shalt be free / As mountain winds: but then exactly do / All points of my command.”
- “auspicious star”
