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’,