MOCK - LIT4 - Tempest - A1S2 Prospero/Ariel/Relationship - quote bank Flashcards
How should you structure an essay for The Tempest?
-intro
-2-3 sections (in the real thing, write about different extracts for each, but for the mock just do different aspects of the extract)
-conclusion
Same for J+H
How is Prospero seen to be an appraising character to Ariel?
-“Exactly is performed”
Give some quotes to show how Prospero is annoyed when Ariel complains about the workload:
“How now? Moody?”
How does Prospero psychologically abuse Ariel?
-“Hast thou forgot the foul witch Sycorax, who with age and envy was grown into a hoop?”
-“Once in a month recount what thou hast been”
-“Imprison’d thou didst painfully remain a dozen years”
-“thou didst vent thy groans as fast as mill-wheels strike”
-“thy groans did make wolves howl and penetrate the breasts of ever angry bears”
How does Prospero diminish and threaten Ariel?
-“malignant thing”
-“I will rend an oak and peg thee in his knotty entrails till thou hast howl’d away twelve winters”
How does Prospero make himself look better than Sycorax’s treatment of Ariel?
-“Dost thou forget from what a torment I did free thee?”
-“mischiefs manifold and sorceries terrible to enter human hearing”
-“thou wast a spirit too delicate to act her earthy and abhorred commands”
-“it was mine art…that made gape the pine and let thee out”
Where is Ariel seen to be an obedient spirit?
-“Past the mid season”
-“I thank thee master”
-“I will be correspondent to command and do my spiriting gently”
How is Ariel seen to be accusative but rational?
-“Is there more toil?…Let me remember thee what thou hast promised”
-“Remember I have done thee worthy service…thou didst promise to bate me a full year”
How is Ariel cowed into submission?
-“No, sir”
-“I thank thee, master”
How does Ariel act sycophantic?
“That’s my noble master! What shall I do? Say what? What shall I do”
Describe the general relationship between Prospero and Ariel:
-P. is in control, emotionally/verbally tortures A.
-hypocritical as he enslaved A. similar to how Sycorax did
-obedient to his “noble master”
-sarcasm/rhetorical questions to diminish A. (“O was she so?”)
-however P. never hurts A., and is open to debate rather than being some indisputable leader
How is Prospero’s and Ariel’s relationship symbiotic? How is it similar to other works of fiction?
-not exactly master + slave, more mutually dependent
-P. needs A.’s magic, A. needs P. for his liberty
-similar to the literary trope of having magicians with an often respectful spirit
