Mod A

Question 1

1 Dearest father

1

TT

Answer 1

‘My dearest father… Thee my daughter, of thee my dear one’

Positive epithet, parallel language between Prospero and Miranda

Prospero’s overcompensation of power, exterts emotional power to subjugate those

Question 2

2 Magic garment

1

TT

Answer 2

‘Lend thy hand and pluck my magic garment from me’

Costuming motif

Projection of role in society to uphold hierarchy, constant need to overcompensate by creating a facade

Question 3

3 Duke of Milan

1

TT

Answer 3

‘Thy father was a duke of Milan and a prince of power… Behold, sir King, the wronged Duke of Milan, Prospero’

Egotistical tone, third person

Desire to maintain power by any means, imprisons him, reconstruct COB, Renaissance use of titles to grant power, prescribed role

Question 4

4 Fire –> caliban

1

TT

Answer 4

‘He does our fire,/ Fetch in our wood, and serves in offices/ that profit’

Tricolon, slave-master binary

Present in hierarchy, aims to maintain control over servants as a result of insecurity in his own power

Question 5

5 Hest

1

TT

Answer 5

‘O my Father, I have broken your hest to say so’

Miranda as a symbol of agency/manipulation

Miranda defies - must overcompensate more, alters language to keep control

Question 6

6 Ebbing

1/2

TT

Answer 6

‘Ebbing men, indeed, most often do so near the bottom run by their own fear or sloth’

Patriarchal stratification of society, COB places those who lack power at the bottom - want them to stay at the bottom

Question 7

7 High charms

1/2

TT

Answer 7

‘My high charms work, and these, mine enemies, are all knit up in their distractions. They now are in my power’

High modality metaphor

Power begins to falter in a decomposing patriarchy

Question 8

8 Poisonous slave

2

TT

Answer 8

‘Poisonous slave’
‘Foul… beast Caliban’

Emotive language, negative epithets

Disempowering those lower in his hierarchy, those deemed undesireable have no way to gain agency due to a rigid COB

Question 9

9 Nobler reason

2

TT

Answer 9

‘Yet with nobler reason ‘gainst my fury’

Emotive language

Slipping control over langauge and power over other in his COB - corrupts masculinity and ability to rule

Question 10

10 Gentle breath

2

TT

Answer 10

‘Gentle breath of yours my sails must fill, or else my project fails, which was to please’

Rhyming couplet

Imprisoned by constant performance, no more audience, no more power - enslaved
Can only restore the COB by relinquishing power - sourced from his hierarchy, false role of patriarch

Question 11

11 Set me free

2

TT

Answer 11

‘Let your indulgences set me free’

Asks audience to set him free, further reinforces idea of power sourced from audience

Question 12

4 Outline sadness

1

HS

Answer 12

‘An outline he fills with sadness. She remains simple. She remains innocent. She is a comfort.’

Corrupts projection of Miranda, women are used to maintain power in society, provides a comfort for him

Question 13

1 Dark backward

1

HS

Answer 13

‘Dark Backward’

Intertextual allusion

juxtaposition between the two texts - moving forward in TT vs stasis in HS

Question 14

2 Smile

1

HS

Answer 14

‘He smiles: the illusion of a smile. Pretence, fakery, but who’s to know?’

Parallels Prospero

attempts to construct a facade in a postmodern society - imprisons psychologically and phsyically

Question 15

3 Had/hadn’t

1

HS

Answer 15

‘If only he had, if only he hadn’t, if only he’d been aware’

aposiopesis

Cannot reconcile grief, postmodernism forces the invidual to repair the psyche to be freed

Question 16

5 Audience

1

HS

Answer 16

‘An act with no audience but himself’
‘Mr Duke’

Pseudonym

Constructs own identity, blends theatre and reality to construct a facade in a morally ambiguous postmodern age

Question 17

6 Cloak of defeat

1

HS

Answer 17

‘The cloak of defeat, the dead husk of his drowned self’

Pageantry metaphor

Power of metatheatre in construction of identity, insecurity in position of power

Question 18

7 Words/danger

1

HS

Answer 18

‘It’s the words that should concern you, thats the danger’

Irony

Divulges impact of verbal manipulation - he uses this, ambiguous control over others and masculine identity

Question 19

8 Charge - team

2

HS

Answer 19

‘I’m in charge of the overall production, and the final say is mine. But we work as a team.’

Oscillates between ideas - masculine desire to assert power even though he questions himself

Question 20

9 Resign

2

HS

Answer 20

‘Resign yourself. He can’t resign himself’

Imperative

Unable to move past grief, struggles to free himself

Question 21

10 Goblins

2

HS

Answer 21

‘My Goblins’
‘Goblins R’ Us’

Negative epithets

Provides prisoners with a sense of agency - hinders Felix’s ability to control others

Question 22

11 Maniac

2

HS

Answer 22

‘A petrified Miranda who’s suddenly realised that her adored father is a full-blown maniac,’

Miranda uses agency to deconstruct Felix’s masculine identity - his quest for power and control has corrupted his identity

Question 23

12 Drugs

2

HS

Answer 23

‘You don’t want them to think you’re on drugs’

Creates a facade - maintaining power over the prisoners, ironic lack of power in an era of social mobility

Question 24

13 Elements

2

HS

Answer 24

‘To the elements be free’ he says to her. And finally, she is.

Metaphor, intertextual allusion

Metaphorically releases Miranda, provides an avenue to continue reconstructing identity - deviates from patriarchal ideas that control is sourced from women