Module A, Hag/Tempest Flashcards
“This island’s mine, by Sycorax…
… my mother, / Which thou tak’st from me.”: Act 1, Scene 2, Caliban
Themes: Power and Control, Imprisonment, Ambition, Revenge
Techniques: Irony, Allusion (To his mother), Juxtaposition
“Canst thou remember, A time…
…before we came to unto this cell??”: Act 1, Scene 2, Prospero
Themes: Imprisonment, Vengeance, Memory
Techniques: Interrogative form, Symbolic Allusion, juxtaposition
“My strong imagination sees…
… a crown / Dropping upon thy head.”: Act 2, Scene 1, Antonio
Themes: Ambition, Betrayal, Power, and Control
Techniques: Visual Imagery, Personification of ‘imagination’, Foreshadowing
“Be not afeard; this isle is full of …
…noises, / Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.”: Act 3, Scene 3, Caliban
Themes: Magic and Illusion, The Other, Ambition
Techniques: Juxtaposition, Reassurance, Imagery, Sibilance, Irony
“But, / If thou dost break her virgin-knot …
…before / All sanctimonious ceremonies may / to make this contract grow; but barren hate, Sour-eyed disdain, and discord shall bestrew.”: Act 4, Scene 1, Prospero
Themes: Love and Marriage, Control, Family, Women
Techniques: Metaphor, Euphemism, Anaphora, Serious Tone and Dialogue
“Be cheerful sir, Our revels…
now are ended; these our actors, As i foretold you, were all spirits, and are metled into air, into thin air, and like the basless fabric of this vision, the cloud capped towers, the gorgeous palaces…shall disolve.”
Themes: Magic and Illusion, power and control
Techniques: Extended Metaphor, foreshadowing,
“For you, most wicked sir, whom to…
…call brother / Would even infect my mouth, I do forgive.”: Act 5, Scene 1, Prospero
Themes: Forgiveness, Love, Family, Moral and Ethical overcoming
Techniques: Hyperbole, Metaphor, Antithesis, Tone Shift
“I must be here confined by…
…you… In this bare island, by your spell.”.: Epilogue, Prospero
Themes: Imprisonment, Nature v. Reality, Redemption, Forgiveness
Techniques: Rhetorical Appeal, Metaphor, Symbolism, Direct tone and address
“He’ll be hair-shirting…
….himself, playing the flagellant, the hermit.”: Chpt. 1, Felix
Themes: Performance, Self-punishing, Imprisonment
Techniques: Metaphor, Allusion, Imagery, Foreshadowing
“That devious, twisted bastard, Tony…
… the evil-hearted, social clambering, Machiavellian foot-licker. He’d fallen for the act.”: Chpt. 2, Felix
Themes: Vengeance vs. Forgiveness, Self-imposed
Techniques: Epithets, Allusion, Imagery, Emotionally-charged language
“Prisons are for incarceration and…
…punishment, not for spurious attempts to educate those who cannot by their very nature be educated…Nature versus Nurture”: Chpt. 32, Sal to Felix
Themes: Imprisonment, Intertextuality, relation back to the Tempest, Nature vs. Nuture
Techniques: Irony, Symbolism, Dialogue
“You’re talking as if Miranda is just a rag …
…doll. As if she’s just lying around with her legs open, draping herself over furniture like wet spaghetti, with a sign on her saying ‘Rape me.’”: Chpt. 43, Anne-Marie (Miranda)
Themes: Role of Women
Techniques: Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole, Irony, High Modality, Frustrated Tone and Dialogue
“Why should the others get a second…
…chance at life, but not him?… It’s like he’s, black or native or something… He never asked to be born.” Chpt. 45, Leggs
Themes: Imprisonment, Forgiveness, The other
Techniques: Irony, Tone, Juxtaposition, Characterisation
“Then Felix strewn forgiveness around whilst …
…listening to the clenching of Tony’s teeth, which had been a greater pleasure.”: Epilogue, Felix
Themes: Forgiveness, Love overcoming Vengeance
Techniques: Irony, Juxtaposition, Metaphor, Sensory Imagery
“ “To the elements be free”…
…and he says to her “and finally she is” ” Chpt. Epilogue, Felix
Themes: Imprisonment,
Techniques: Intertextuality, Symbolism, Tone, Repetition, Anaphora
