Shakespeare

Question 1

Cultural Anxiety

Answer 1

• humanism vs God-centric universe (language and moral philosophy)
• artifice/artificial/artificiality

Question 2

Artifice/artifical

Answer 2

• artifice is a clever trick used to decieve others
• aritifical means to be fake or not real

Question 3

What was the “masque” for?

Answer 3

King James’s wedding

Question 4

Unity of time

Answer 4

the entire plot of the play is to happen in one day

Question 5

Unity of place

Answer 5

the entire story must take place in one place

Question 6

Unity of action

Answer 6

Everything must support ONE plot line

Question 7

Manipulation of Prospero

Answer 7

• manipulates the weather
• portrays Antonio as bad, very conveniently forgetting his own part in this
• gets back to Milan
• is behind his daughter’s marriage
• treats Caliban badly, and Ariel badly as well

Question 8

Prospero as a god figure

Answer 8

both want their children to only know what they want THEM to know (tree of knowledge)

providence: he acts like a larger force to create order, punishing bad, rewarding good

Question 9

Nature vs nurture

Answer 9

• humans act on two core motivations: ambition and fear
• human beings are born as a blank state and are formed by their experiences and education
• true pleasure is from virtue

Question 10

Nature

Answer 10

biologically natural

Question 11

Naturalized

Answer 11

a social construct that tries to make a certain action “natural”

Question 12

Prospero a hero?

Answer 12

Depends, he is heoric bc those who did wrong get punished, however his treatment/view of Caliban proves that he should NOT be a hero

Question 13

Noble by class

Answer 13

nobless oblige, those who are born noble are good

Question 14

Difference in punishement between noble class

Answer 14

Alonso and Ferdinand are punished mentally/tested
Caliban is physically abused

Question 15

Artifice in the novel

Answer 15

• the storm was made by Prospero
• ## ferdinand and miranda might not have been natural (propsero says “it works”, spell on ferdinand)

Question 15

Power and Hierarchy

Answer 15

• prospero (the apex of society)
• miranda (all island beings are forced to serve)
• spirits (air creatures, led by Ariel)
• Caliban (the earth creature, assumed animal-like/ignorant, abused)

Question 16

Commonwealth

Answer 16

• no laws/rules exist
• people rely on nature for everything
• no politics/society/richness
• no letters/images/traffic

Question 17

Prospero’s power

Answer 17

• great power, but illegitimate bc does not stem from something righteous
• God only, no other kind of divine
• social and moral power (men of “sin” are silenced)
• everyone returns to a contained/ordered status quo

Question 18

Prospero and Sycorax

Answer 18

• Caliban has two parent figures, one dark one light
• compared to Medea in Metamorphis, seen as evil but gives up everything (his books) for the greater good

Question 19

Cultural imperialism

Answer 19

imposing an idea of culture/values viewed as “right” by colonizers that controls the subjugated

Question 20

Caliban

Answer 20

evidence for the NEED for colonialism

Question 21

Eurocentric discourse

Answer 21

the way we see through the European lens

Question 22

marginalization

Answer 22

anything pushed to the outside of a social circle

Question 23

post-colonialism professor

Answer 23

Questions power construct, and says that marginalized people find it difficult to accept prospero’s victory

Question 24

traditionalist professor

Answer 24

• caliban is inferior bc of Prospero’s magic, not anything else
• Caliban subjects to the order in the end
• civilisation > order

Question 25

Montagine

Answer 25

• argues that the First Nations lived without social/political norms and that those are what we created, artifice
• though they had no intelligence in terms of books they lived happily, and healthily
• no lying/backstabbing
• Barbarism/savagery: a term coined for fear of the unnatural, or unknown

Question 26

Brown

Answer 26

• Prospero NEEDS caliban to establish dominance
• Prospero controls other’s sexualities, stopping Caliban from getting with Miranda
• John Rolfe and Pocohontas, compares to Miranda and Ferdinand saying that it was most likely lust at first sight not love
• Mastered vs savagism, where Ferdinand is the mastered and Caliban the savage, acting on impulse rather than thought

Question 27

Willis

Answer 27

• the play is about POWER, colonialism is a result of that
• The tempest attempts to justify the class structure of the “center”
• Antonio is a bigger threat to Prospero than Caliban, he is trying to contain Antonio
• Antonio’s arrogance and non-repentance makes Prospero seem like a better person although he may have caused the issues in the first place