loss and restoration theme

Question 1

drives plot

Answer 1

Prospero’s attempt to recover his lost dukedom of Milan drives the plot of the Tempest.

Question 2

experiencing loss

Answer 2

Prospero isn’t the only character in the play to experience loss. Ariel lost his freedom to Sycorax and now serves Prospero. Caliban, who considers himself the rightful ruler of the island, was overthrown and enslaved by Prospero.

Question 3

loss of power

Answer 3

he tempest that shipwrecks Alonso and his courtiers on the island, Prospero strips them of their position and power, and also causes Alonso to believe that he has lost his son to the sea.

Question 4

reaction to losses reveals true nature

Answer 4

Reduced to desperation and despair, Alonso recognizes his error in helping to overthrow Prospero and gives up his claim to Milan, returning Prospero to power and restoring order between Milan and Naples.

Question 5

no remorse

Answer 5

Antonio and Sebastian never show remorse for overthrowing Prospero and prove to be ambitious killers in their plot to murder and overthrow Alonso.

Question 6

power through violence

Answer 6

Stephano and Trinculo, in their buffoonish way, likewise seek power through violence.

Question 7

found themselves

Answer 7

Gonzalo observes in the last scene of the play, the characters “found … ourselves, when no man was his own”

Question 8

displacement of power

Answer 8

“What cares these roarers for the name of king?”

social organisation depends upon setting and circumstances

Question 9

power of language

Answer 9

“You taught me language, and my profit on’t

Is, I know how to curse.”

Question 10

virtue

Answer 10

“The rarer action is

In virtue, than in vengeance.”

Question 11

stopping magic

Answer 11

“I’ll drown my book.”

Question 12

restoration of society

Answer 12

“O brave new world

That has such people in’t!”

Question 13

in the course of the play

Answer 13

we see the widespread upsetting of social order and organisation - Richard Adams

Question 14

Prospero’s actions are driven by his desire

Answer 14

to reclaim his usurped position, so too are Caliban’s as Prospero usurped him of his rightful place on the Island

“this island’s mine”

Question 15

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Answer 15

when Prospero leaves the island at the end of the play, Caliban, who up until this point has had a hunched and malformed spine, finally stands up straight, when his lost island is relegated to him

Question 16

although Caliban’s island is

Answer 16

restored to him at the end, A. D Nuttall suggests that Caliban expects to be retained in service and leave with his master

Question 17

“this island’s mine”

Answer 17

his account portrays Prospero as the intruder who betrayed the initial welcome given to him by Caliban

Question 18

repentance and forgiveness

Answer 18

“Repentance in The Tempest is a largely unachieved goal” - Orgel

Question 19

shape of a revenge drama

Answer 19

long nurtured sense of hurt and injury, then culprit comes within grasp - this play averts from this pattern when Prospero does not take revenge

Question 20

Prospero and revenge

Answer 20

“brought mine enemies to this shore” - does initially seem like he wants forgiveness

Question 21

Prospero’s forgiveness

Answer 21

“forgive thy rankest fault”

“the rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance”

Question 22

Caliban’s revenge

Answer 22

“this Island’s mine” - “batter his skull”

Question 23

“require my dukedom of thee”

Answer 23

does he take his title back or is he given it

was it taken from him or did he willingly and knowingly trade it in pursuit fo his “art”

Question 24

parental authority

Answer 24

does he lose authority over Miranda - “broke your hest to say so”

or does he give her to F in order to preserve his power