tempest Flashcards
Miranda: ‘Your tale…
[prosperos story]
“Your tale, sir, would cure deafness”
Ariel: ‘All Hail…
[what he can do for prospero]
“All hail great master! Grave sir, hail! I come/ To answer they best pleasure. Be’t to fly,/ To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride/ on the curled clouds, to they strong bidding task/ Ariel and all his quality.”
Ariel: ‘Pardon, Master’…
[obedience]
“Pardon, master./ I will be correspondent to command/ And do my spiriting gently.”
Caliban: ‘You taught…
[revenge and language]
“You taught me language, and my profit on ‘t/ Is I know how to curse, The red plague rid you/ For learning me your language!”
Prospero: ‘Soft, sir,…
[controlling ferdinand and mirandas romance]
“Soft, sir, one word more/ They are both in either’s powers. But this/ swift business/ I must uneasy make, lest too light winning Make the prize light.
Gonzalo: ‘I’ th’ commonwealth’…
[utopia]
“I’ th’ commonwealth I would by contraries/ execute all things, for no kind of traffic/ would i admit; no name of magistrate;/ Letters should not be known; riches, poverty,/ And use of service, none; contract, succession,/ bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none;/ no use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil;/ no occupation; all men idle, all/ and women too, but innocent and pure’/ no sovereignty”
Ariel: ‘Hell is’…
[quoting ferdinand]
‘Hell is empty and all the devils are here’
Miranda: ‘Good…
[nature is not inherent]
‘Good wombs have borne bad sons’
Caliban: ‘Be not afeard’…
[ecocritical]
‘Be not afeard. The isle is full of noises,/ Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.’
Caliban: ‘Thought’…
[opression]
‘Thought is free”
Prospero: ‘But release’…
[epilogue]
‘But release me from my bands/ With the help of your good hands.’
Prospero: ‘Let your’…
[epilogue]
‘Let your indulgence set me free.’
Prospero: ‘I, thy’…
[teacher]
‘I, thy schoolmaster’
Ariel: ‘All hail’…
‘All hail, great master; grave sir, hail! I come/ To answer thy best pleasure, be’t to fly’/ To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride/ On the curled clouds. To thy strong bidding, task/ Ariel and all his quality’
Ariel: ‘I flamed amazement’…
‘I flamed amazement.’
‘I flame distinctly,’
‘dreadful thunderclaps,’
‘ Of sulphurous roaring, the most mighty Neptune Seem to besiege and make his bold waves tremble.’
