Tempest Flashcards
Prospero over Caliban (2)
- Thou most lying slave
- What I command, I’ll rack thee with old cramps
Prospero over Ariel
- “Pardon, master. I will be correspondent to command and do my spiriting gently”
- “Come away servant, come!”
Caliban > Stephano and Trinculo
- “I’ll swear upon that bottle to be thy true / subject, for the liquor is not earthly”
- “Possess his books; for without them he’s but a sot”
- “When Prospero is destroyed”
Boatswain shows control
“Silence! Trouble us not”
Antonio about Alonso’s murder
“By that destiny perform an act”
Miranda to Prospero about the tempest
If by your art, my dearest father, you have put the wild waters in this roar, allay them
Prospero not doing his duties
Me, poor man, my library
Was dukedom large enough
Caliban about being his own king
‘was mine own king’
Miranda when first sees Ferdinand
There’s nothing ill can dwell in such a temple
=> what people look like same how they are
Caliban about the music
sounds and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not
=> Caliban can be emphatic
Prospero says nurture will not fix Caliban
A devil, a born devil, on whose nature nurture can never stick
=> Prospero says that no education will fix Caliban
Prospero about enemies
At this hour / lies at my mercy all mine enemies
=> ‘mercy’ revenge or not
Miranda about mankind
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world that has such people in’t
=> naive and innocent
Caliban about grace
I’ll be wise hereafter
And seek for grace
=> manipulation or forgiveness
=> civil or colonialists
Prospero giving up magic
Now my charms are all o’erthrown, and what strength i have’s mine own, which is most faint.
Ariel about hell
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
Caliban about language
You taught me language, and my profit on’t
Is I know how to curse.
Miranda offers to marry her
I am your wife, if you will marry me:
If not, I’ll die your maid
Prospero’s last words
As you from crimes would pardoned be,
Let your indulgence set me free.
Antonio’s reason for swords out
‘Herd of lions’
Antonio loyal to the king
‘Let’s all sink wi’th’ king’
Antonio mocking Gonzalo
‘The grounds indeed tawny’
Antonio has no regret for what he did
‘And look how well garments sit upon me’
Sebastian powers trips boatswain
‘uncharitable dog’
Sebastian evil to Gonzalo
‘Save his majesty’ - mocking his utopia
Sebastian criticises Alonso (3)
- ‘he receives comfort like cold porridge’
- ‘the fault’s your own’ - loss of Ferdinand
- ‘let’s take leave of him’ - leave him during Tempest
Stephano says about Caliban
‘This is some monster of the isle with four legs’
Alonso griefs (3)
- ‘no, no, he’s gone’
- ‘i wish mine eyes would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts’
- ‘my son is lost and - in my rate - she too’
Alonso does not have power in the Tempest
‘What care these roarers for the name of king?’ - boatswain
Trinculo about social status
‘O King Stephano, O peer!’
Trinculo describes Caliban
‘Half a fish and half a monster’
Ferdinand refuses help
‘I had rather crack my sinews…than you should such dishonour undergo’
Caliban praises to Trinculo/Stephano
‘Let me lick thy shoe’
Ferdinand does not know name
‘What’s your name’
Gonzalo being grateful (2)
- ‘Be merry’
- ‘Few in millions can speak like us’
Gonzalo’s utopia (2)
- ‘Had i plantation of this isle’
- ‘No name of magistrate…riches, poverty’
Gonzalo being loyal
‘Heavens keep him from these beasts’ to Alonso
Alonso tries to drown himself
‘and I’ll seek him deeper than e’er plummet sounded and with him there lie mudded’
