Tempest Critics Flashcards
Cicily Berry
“The whole sense of Caliban being taught language is cultural.”
“Caliban is ‘the other’ and Prospero has power over him through language’.
Griffiths
“the slave needs the master as much as the master needs the slave”
Dryden
“his language is as hobgoblin as his person”
Wilson
Ariel helps Prospero “…realise his own oneness with struggling humanity”
A.D Nuttall
(failed forgiveness) “It is as if they are stuck, frozen in the moral wasteland from which the act of forgiveness should be freezing them”
Orgel
“Prosperous great scheme is to bring about repentance and reconciliation”
Kermode
Art is not only a beneficent magic in contrast to an evil one, it is the ordination of civility, the control of appetite
Bate
[metamorphosis] viewed in the Renaissance as witchcraft’s great set-piece
Vaughan
The magician’s art, like the dramatist’s lies in the creation of illusions
Susan Clarke
The Tempest is a study in power: spiritual and temporal; natural and supernatural; power over the outer world and power
Michael O’Connell
The play is an experiment of romance
Ronald Bond
The Tempest diverges from the pastoral tradition by depicting idleness as a moral weakness and work or devotion as a virtue
Johnson
Ariel performs the real theatre of the play
Barry Beck
Ariel is consciously directed; he is civilised and ordered
Diana Devlin
Caliban is depicted as a man - his humanity is made ambiguous
