Tempest and Hag-Seed Flashcards
Tempest:
‘A devil…’
“A devil, a born devil, on whose nature/ Nurture can never stick”
Tempest:
‘This island’s mine…’
“This island’s mine by Sycorax my mother” and “For I am all the subjects that you have,/ Which first was mine own king”
Tempest:
‘You taught..’
“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!”
The confined Caliban to something he did not want or need. He did not need to be taught language or made more human. He was happy the way he was, and in a way Prospero and Miranda bonded him to knowledge which he did not want to know
Tempest
‘Be not…’
Be not afraid. The isle is full of noises,/ Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not”
Tempest
‘Poisonous…’
‘I am subject…’
‘posionous slave’ Caliban, and the ‘honourable’ Prospero.
“I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of the island.”
Tempest
Caliban (Aside)
‘I must obey..’
“I must obey;his art is of such power…”.
Tempest
‘Thy father…’
‘They are now in my…Mine enemies’
Thy father was the Duke of Milan, and
A prince of power.
“My high charms work,/And these, mine enemies, are all knit up/…They are now in my power”
Tempest
‘Tempestuous noise…’
‘Wild..’
Tempestuous noise of thunder and lightning heard’
‘wild waters’
TEMPEST: Power of performance (AOP)
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Tempest:
“At this hour…”
“At this hour/ Lies at my mercy all mine enemies”
TEMPEST: Power of performance/ transformation (SA)
“the rarer…”
…the rarer action is
In virtue than in
vengeance: they being penitent,
The sole drift of my purpose doth extend
Not a frown further.
Tempest
‘Miranda helps…’
Miranda helps him to disrobe.
TEMPEST: Gender and Miranda
“More to…”
“My fo-‘
“More to know did never meddle with my thoughts’,
‘My foot, my tutor?’
TEMPEST: Gender and Miranda
“Goddess”
“Goddess, holy innoccence.”
HAGSEED: Gender
‘A grip…”
‘a grip like a jar opener’, ‘a foul mouth’ and ‘a bee tattoo’,
HAGSEED: Gender
“Hefty”
‘hefty pull at her beer’,
Being a girl is the pits
HAGSEED: Gender
“With the
with the girlish connotations of ‘pirouettes’, ‘graceful’, and ‘knitting group’,
HAGSEED: Power of theatre
“Immediately…”
Immediately grasped by his students, since they were experts in them’,
“power struggles, treacheries, crimes
HAGSEED: Power of theatre
“Actors saw”
actors’ ‘saw the point’ of ‘Julius Caesar, Richard III and Macbeth’ ‘right away’
HAGSEED: Transformation
‘What has he been thinking…’
“What has he been thinking… How selfish he has been!… But he knows what she truly wants, and what he owes her. ‘To the elements be free’… And finally, she is.”
HAGSEED: Transformation
‘He needed to get…’
“He needed to get his Tempest back… his Miranda must be released from her glass coffin; she must be given a life”
HAGSEED: Transformation
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HAGSEED: power of theatre feature- power of theatre to unite but also for self actualisation and change- pedagogical style within the characters learning about shakespeare
-STRUCTURAL MANIPULATION- insertion of a screenplay form when the revenge is being enacted- showing the engagement of all prisoners, and all their contributions within dialogue, and also offstage- represents community and the uniting power of theatre to cause social change THE POSSIBILITY OF BETTERMENT
TEMPEST: Transformation
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