tempest quotes Flashcards
“sir” - ariel
master/servant
submission from ariel - fear or respect of prosperos magic
“Awake, dear heart, awake” - prospero to miranda
shows prospero’s power, awaking miranda with a single imperative verb - power dynamic
god-like status
“thou earth”
“thou tortoise”
“thou poisonous slave” - prospero
pejorative nouns that prospero refers to caliban as - power dynamic, hatred
master/slave
detatched second person pronoun
“my quaint ariel”
“fine apparition”
“My dear Ariel / I will miss thee” - prospero
affection/pride for ariel - magical being with his own power - can do grander tasks, more useful than caliban
possesive first person pronoun
“There’s wood enough within” - caliban
refusing to do what prospero asks, childish like a grumpy toddler
declarative phrase
“Tis a villain, sir, / I do not love to look on” - miranda
declarative
shows caliban is monsterous
“Abhorred slave” - miranda
mirriors prospero’s “thou poisonous slave”
shows miranda’s disgust of caliban
“I had peopl’d else / This isle with Calibans” - caliban
shows why they all hate caliban
no remorse for his actions - purposeful move by shakespeare to reduce audience sympathy and pathos
“lov’d thee”
“barren place and fertile” - caliban
audience sympathy for caliban, pathos
prospero betrayed caliban
“all men idle, all; and women too”
“no soverignity”
“would be king on’t” - gonzalo
“I’th’commonwealth” speech
women are an afterthught
contradoictory statements - confused old man
“pray now, rest”
“should do it with much more ease” - miranda
miranda subverting gender roles and being dominant over ferdinand - commanding words
the royal shakespeare company adaptation has miranda easily scoop us the logs in contrast to ferdinand’s unsuccesful tugging
“no precious creature” - ferdinand
dehumanising, doesnt see miranda as an equal
“a thing divine” - miranda
“goddess” - ferdinand
unable to view each other falws, see each other as perfect / god-like - idealised love
