TEMPEST

Question 1

COLONIALISM 
DEVLIN
HEBRON
HUNT
TAYMOR
STRACHEY
CLARK

Answer 1

“Ariel is Prospero’s servant, and Caliban his necessary slave”

Prospero can control Caliban= can control his darker impulses.-

Caliban has “natural superiority”-

suffers from Vitiligo

“Every man over-valuing his own worth, would be a commander”

S+ T“travellers from he old world eager for power and self-aggransisement”-

Question 2

MAGIC
Ratnam
Clark
Hebron
Dee

Answer 2

P= a“Vengeful magician”

audience “delight in the beauty of stage contrivences”-

Prospero is a “troubled soul” not a “benign sage.”

“harmony” as a key element of magic

Question 3

GENRE
ROLFE
BRUNNER
DEVLIN
BOWEN

Answer 3

COMEDY-
“fall in love swiftly and completely”

disruption but without tragic conclusion- S. Brunner

• “necessary Slave”

“unresolved” and “urgent”

Question 4

ENDING

Answer 4

“repentance remains… a largely unachieved goal”- orgel

• Caliban will “live on his own island untroubled”- G. Pane

Question 5

FORGIVENESS/ REVENGE

Answer 5

Andrew Solomon: P comes to a “Christ-like”

Devlin: C is “treacherous”-

Question 6

FREEDOM

Answer 6

“Ariel is obviously to be regarded as immaterial” –Sandra Clark

In Caliban, Shakespeare depicts “the native” in a “state of dependence”- Devlin

Machiavelli “desire to lead and ability to stay ahead of competitors= good leader”

Question 7

POWER AND AUTHORITY

Answer 7

“Prospero’s mission if to create harmony from anarchy”- Hunt

“Prospero is not effected by narrative, he is the narrative.”- Ledingham

• “vanity and self-delusion… underline his past misfortunes.”- A. Riches
  3. Antonio Immoral “Corrupt or depraved”- Dicon Hunt

Question 8

FAMILY

Answer 8

Sandra Clark’s “ultimate evil is always represented in the betrayal of the bonds of nature”

“A woman’s status depended upon that of her family” - Rosemary Masek

“P has an avuncular relationship with Ariel”- Liz Dollimore

Question 9

ARIEL

Answer 9

“Ariel is the embodiment of imaginary power” Lindley

“sprightly and sympathetic”-O’tooll Hebron argues P is a “mage”- force for good

Sean McEvoy: Ariel’s “humanity is greater than his master’s”

Question 10

DISPOSSESSION

Answer 10

“contemporary Caribbean writers find in Caliban- themselves, disenfranchised, dispossessed”- Bruner –
1970 production cast as West Indian: norman beaton

“Caliban himself is a colonialist on an island which originally belonged to Ariel”- Lindley

Question 11

UTOPIA

Answer 11

McFarlane- Prospero is a “godlike” figure who presided over a golden world

As long as humans remain unique in their state of mind, utopia is a mere fantasy.- Varughese

“The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth”- James I

Question 12

METATHEATRE

Answer 12

INTRO: CHARLES MOSELEY: “no other play of Shakespeare’s so persistently draws attention to itself as a play”

1. unities= “structural technique that can be considered as the first wave of realism”- Alicia Williams-

Coleridge: “the very Shakespeare himself, as it were, of The Tempest”

Question 13

MASQUE

Answer 13

“Way for Prospero to pronounce his blessing”- Charles Moseley

Dixon Hunt: P excercises “his reasons over passions”

“The spirit of the masque extends through the whole of The Tempest”- Dixon Hunt

Question 14

CALIBAN

Answer 14

Caliban’s “nature is beyond regeneration”- Dixon Hunt

Question 15

TRINC AND STEPH

Answer 15

Robert Browning “vulgur products of civilisation”

Helen Hargest Steph and Tric “are not especially funny”

Sam Mendes who directed in 1993 Steph and Tric are “parodying” Seb and anT

Question 16

MIRANDA

Answer 16

Miranda and Prospero -a lack of “natural affinity between then”- Sandra Clarke

‘Miranda is an allegory for ‘softer’ colonialism’’- Leiniger- no she like native

Question 17

ANTONIO

Answer 17

Dixon Hunt: “Prospero must be an attentive puppeteer to succeed.”

Sandra Clark=Ant “natural malignity”

Lauren Arnold : Antonio is “astute in acquiring Prospero’s dukedom”