Module A Flashcards
Hag-Seed: LJCPM… lost daughters
Lavinia, Juliet, Cordelia, Perdita, Marina. All the lost daughters. But some of them had been found again. Why not his Miranda?
Tempest (Boatswain): roarers
What cares these roarers for the name of king?
Tempest (Boatswain): myself
Remember whom thou hast aboard/ None that I more love than myself
Tempest (Prospero about Caliban): nature/nurture
A devil, a born devil, on whose nature/ Nurture can never stick
Hag-Seed: own fault
That devious, twisted bastard, Tony, is Felix’s own fault
Tempest (Caliban): mine
This island’s mine by Sycorax my mother
Tempest (Caliban to Prospero): subjects
For I am all the subjects that you have,/ Which first was mine own king
Tempest (Caliban to Prospero): language
You taught me language, and my profit on’t / Is I know how to curse
Hag-Seed: back of the bus
Ain’t gonna get on the back of the bus, / And you can give our land right back to us!
Hag-Seed (Prospero letting Miranda go): elements
‘To the elements be free’, he says to her./ And, finally, she is
Hag-Seed (Felix): snap…cell
Snap out of it, Felix. Pull yourself together. Break out of your cell.
Hag-Seed (Sal): prisons… nature vs nurture
Prisons are for incarceration and punishment, not for spurious attempts to educate those who cannot, by their very natures, be educated… Nature versus nurture
Hag-Seed (Felix): ninth prison
You don’t say ‘set me free’ unless you’re not free. Prospero is a prisoner inside the play he himself has created… the ninth prison is the play itself.
Hag-Seed (Felix): Fool… she never was here… resign
Fool, he tells himself. She’s not here. She was never here. It was imagination and wishful thinking, nothing but that. Resign yourself. He can’t resign himself.
Tempest (Prospero): virtue
The rarer action is in virtue, than in vengeance
