Mod A - temp & hag Flashcards
P1: freedom and restoration of order - Felix from internal grief which sets Miranda’s spirit free (3 Hag)
“Tony is out and Felix is back in, which is as it should be”
‘set me free’ - title of epilogue
“to the elements to be free…and finally she is” - intertextual ref to Temp
P2: motif of literal and metaphorical imprisonment - aligns with composer’s contexts to explore how individuals may be set free (Temp - 1)
“this island’s mine by Sycorax my mother, which thou tak’st from me.” - caliban
P2: motif of literal and metaphorical imprisonment - aligns with composer’s contexts to explore how individuals may be set free (Hag - 2)
‘she’s also here, watching him as he prepares to leave the full poor cell where she’s been trapped with him.’
“to the elements to be free…and finally she is.” - intertextual reference to Prospero freeing Ariel
P3: magic of theatre in providing power to control narrative, ultimately allowing transcendence from one’s painful losses and moral failings (Hag - 2)
“his magic garment is hanging in there too…the cloak of his defeat” - intertextual ref
“directed and controlled by himself…its one of the oldest theatrical gimmicks in the box”
P3: magic of theatre in providing power to control narrative, ultimately allowing transcendence from one’s painful losses and moral failings (Temp - 2)
Prospero as a “master of a full poor cell”
“Pluck my magic garment from me.” - Prospero
P4: revenge instigated by betrayal (Temp - 1)
“Batter his skill…burn but his books.” - Caliban
P4: revenge instigated by betrayal (Hag - 3)
“they see the island as a place of opportunity”
“revenge is so close he can actually taste it…like steak, rare” - simile
Felix’s revenge plot imprisons him as he is consumed with his own grief after keeping Miranda’s spirit “locked behind the glass” - intertextual ref
P5: dissonances between Jacobean and contemporary values through representation of Caliban as the ‘outsider’ (Temp - 1)
“she did litter here, a freckled whelp, hag born - not honoured with a human shape” - beastial language, imagery
P5: dissonances between Jacobean and contemporary values through representation of Caliban as the ‘outsider’ (Hag - 3)
“most scurvy monster” - intertextual ref
‘Caliban is secretly poetic’
‘there’s more to Caliban, he’ll tell them, than just an ugly face.’
P6: representation of women influenced by values from composer’s context (Temp - 3)
Miranda described - “cherubim” and “goddess” - symbol of innocence
“you have often begun to tell me what I am” - Miranda
“I might call him a thing divine, for nothing natural I ever saw so noble” - Miranda
P6: representation of women influenced by values from composer’s context (Hag - 2)
Anne-Marie has a “grip like a jar opener” - strength, empowerment, collides with Shakespeare’s Miranda
“…though he broke my heart. The bee was sort of our joke.” - use of subtle jokes, sexually empowered, not afraid to show this
