MOD A Flashcards
Imprisonment & freedom
“ As you …” (Tempest)
“ As you from crimes would be pardoned let you indulgence set me free”
- soliloquy (act of speaking ones thoughts aloud)
Prospero is imprisoned literally(on the island) and metaphorically (desire for revenge) Shakespeare highlight need for Prospero to forgive enemies to free himself
Imprisonment & freedom
“The rarer…” (The Tempest) “Evil Nature”
“ the rare action is in virtue than in vengeance”
- metaphor
Prospero able to come to terms with his vengeful nature “relieved by prayer”
Imprisonment & freedom
“ to the elements…” ( Hag-seed )
“ to the elements be free, he says to her. And, finally she is”
- Intertextual reference
- Symbolism
“ sets her free”
Felix’s imprisonment is self imposed by guilt shame, Miranda symbolises Felix’s guilt, once he faces his guilt/grief he is able to let daughter go and free himself form metaphorical self imposed prison
Imprisonment & freedom
“ His Miranda must…” (Hag-seed)
“His Miranda must be released from her glass coffin; she must be given a life”
- verbal irony
Sets Miranda free inherently sets him free iron of glass coffin … given a life
Imprisonment & freedom
“Abhorred slave …” ( The Tempest )
“Abhorred slave I pittied thee… therefore wast thou deservedly confined into this rock”
- high modality
Miranda negatively connotes in regard to the “Brutish” Caliban after he attempts to rape her, despite her attempts to care for him concluding his “evil nature” stripping his freedom and leaving him physically incarcerated within a rock - great chain of being
Imprisonment & freedom
“Prisons are for …” (Hag-seed)
“Prisons are for incarceration and punishment not for spurious attempts to educate this who cannot by their very nature be educated. What’s the quote ? Nature versus nurture, something like that.”
- hypophora ( writer raises a question and then immediately answer it )
Forgiveness & transformation
“At this hour…”
VS
“I do forgive …” (The Tempest)
“At this hour/ lies at my mercy all mine enemies”
VS
“I do forgive, thy rankest fault all of them” - Prospero
- juxtaposition
Presents the perils of an obsessive thirst for vengeance only to provide a solution for it through compassion and forgiveness. - prosperous forgiveness and renunciation of magic and his past grievances in “this rough magic I here abjure”
Forgiveness & transformation
“Let’s shove it …”
VS
“ Then Felix has” (Hag-Seed)
“Let’s shove it down the throat of that devious, twisted bastard, Tony”
VS
“Then Felix has strewn forgiveness around while listening to the clenching of Tony’s teeth”
- Asyndeton
- Auditory imagery
Atwood does in agreeance with The Tempest, propose the futility of seeking revenge though Felix’s confession after he exacts his revenge through the hypophora “why does it feel like a letdown”
Forgiveness & transformation
“Mine would sir…” (The Tempest)
“ mine would sir, where I human”
- irony
Finally accepted forgiveness, dismantling him from his tyranny - Ariel’s ironic phrase is allusion to renaissance humanism, prompts to embrace humanist values and forgive.
Forgiveness & transformation
“Break [his] staff…” (The Tempest)
Prosper declares he Will: “Break [his] staff, and down [his] book”
- high modal language
Forgiveness & transformation
“A shadow a wavering …” (Hag-seed)
“A shadow a wavering of the light whispers, ‘I would sir were I human’. “
- Intertextual reference
Shadowy figure of Miranda, metaphorically represents his incarcerated subconscious
Forgiveness & transformation
“ Break out of …” (Hag-seed)
“Break out of [his] cell”
- metaphor
He was previously entrapped by his own vengeful plans
Masculinity vs Feminism
“Poor worm…” (The Tempest)
“Poor worm, thou art infected”
- zoomorphisim
Presents Miranda as subservient to him - insinuating an inferior individual as per the hierarchal paradigms of the Jacobean era
Masculinity vs Feminism
“ O, a cherubin” (The Tempest)
“ O, a cherubin”
- Biblical allusion
Allusion to angels that conveys the contextual stereotypes for woman to be pure and innocent
Major dichotomy for Jacobean standards “innocent” and “pure” or isolated from society and drowned in hate speech ie Sycorax no chance to speak her voice - represent suppression and exclusion of women during the Jacobean era.
Masculinity & Feminism
“ how can someone…” (Hag - seed)
“How can someone so slender and girlish appear so…”
- internal monologue (Felix)
Anne Marie’s is perfect representation of a strong women transcending 17th century stereotypes in contrast to the subjugation of women in The Tempest. - Anne Marie is androgynous (appears male and female - characterisation)
