MOCK - LIT4 - Tempest - A1S2 Prospero/Ariel/Relationship - quote analysis

Question 1

Exactly is performed

Answer 1

appraising of Ariel

Question 2

How now? Moody?

Answer 2

-short syntax, aggressive
-easily angered, volatile

Question 3

Hast thou forgot the foul witch Sycorax, who with age and envy was grown into a hoop? Hast thou forgot her?

Answer 3

-psychological torture and interrogation
-vivid metaphorical description to terrify Ariel

Sycorax is so crooked/malformed, she has bent into a hoop

Question 4

Imprison’d thou didst painfully remain a dozen years

Answer 4

adverb emphasises the agony, making A. relive the experience

Question 5

thou didst vent thy groans as fast as mill-wheels strike

Answer 5

-more vivid reminders
-simile to display Ariel’s pain

Question 6

thy groans did make wolves howl and penetrate the breasts of ever angry bears

Answer 6

hyperbolic metaphor to show how A.’s agony evoked pity in the animals of the island

Question 7

malignant thing

Answer 7

-diminished by objectifying her
-describes A. as cancerous

Question 8

I will rend an oak and peg thee in his knotty entrails till thou hast howl’d away twelve winters

Answer 8

-claims he is better than Sycorax but intimidates A. with the same punishment that she used
-however he is better, as he did promise to “bate [Ariel] a full year”

Question 9

Dost thou forget from what a torment I did free thee?

Answer 9

-furious at A. questioning him
-violent nouns like torment to repeatedly torture Ariel

Question 10

this damned witch Sycorax, for mischiefs manifold and sorceries terrible to enter human hearing

Answer 10

-hyperbolic descriptions of Sycorax
-almost indoctrinates A. into thinking Prospero treats them better

Question 11

blue-eyed hag…thou wast a spirit too delicate to act her earthy and abhorred commands

Answer 11

-juxtaposes Ariel and Sycorax
-makes himself look better by describing S.’s treatment with graphic adjectives

Question 12

it was mine art…that made gape the pine and let thee out

Answer 12

-further convincing to make A. think P. is better
-emphasises his own kindness, even though P. threatens A. with the same punishments

Question 13

I thank thee master

Answer 13

shorter syntax after the psychological torture

Question 14

I will be correspondent to command and do my spiriting gently

Answer 14

-cowed into submission
-very intimidated by P. after the emotional torture A. went through

Question 15

Is there more toil?…Let me remember thee what thou hast promised

Answer 15

-a tonal shift in the extract, A. is questioning rather than submissive
-accusatory tone by repeated use of “thou” and imperative “Let me remember thee”

Question 16

Remember I have done thee worthy service…thou didst promise to bate me a full year

Answer 16

-rational arguments with P.
-still respectful

Question 17

That’s my noble master! What shall I do? Say what? What shall I do

Answer 17

-sycophantic/obsequious with eager questions
-subservient spirit
-acting in a way that is beneficial for A.

subservient - prepared to obey others unquestioningly