Tempest Quotes Flashcards
1.1 what is this scene meant to be like
realistic
1.1 Boatswain
“you mar our labour…To cabin; silence! Trouble us not”
Gonzalo: “remember whom thou hast aboard”
B: “None that I love more than myself…out of our way, I say!”
1.1 Antonio to the Boatswain
“We are less afraid to be drowned than thou art”
1.1 Antonio, uncaring, brave
“Let’s all sink wi’ th’ king”
1.2 Miranda status
has been a spectator like the audience
1.2 Miranda’s suffering
“O, I have suffer’d with those that I saw suffer”
1.2 what does Miranda think was in the vessel
“a brave vessel–who had, no doubt, some noble creature in her” (kings etc but they are all evil)
1.2 Miranda would have saved them if she had been
“Had I been any god of power”
1.2 Why did Prospero do it
“in care of thee, of thee, my dear one, thee, my daughter”
1.2 What does Miranda first ask Prospero
“If by your art, my dearest father, you have put the wild waters in this roar, allay them.”
1.2 When does Prospero become human
“pluck my magic garments from me…lie there my art”
1.2 Prospero description of his ultimate power
“I have with such provision in mine art
So safely order’d that there is no soul,
No, not so much perdition as an hair
Betid any creature in the vessel Which thou heard’st cry, which thou saw’st sink. Sit
down,
(merges two statements + a command, does not finish his first statement with “hurt” but instead finds a new way)
(JEsus assured his disciples that no hair would perish x3, Prospero has assumed the providential role of god. At this moment necessary)
1.2 Prospero asks what Miranda sees in the past
he is startled that she “four or five women once that tended me?”
“what seest thou else in the dark backward abyss of time?”
1.2 Prosper describes Miranda’s mother
“Thy mother was a piece of virtue”
faithful
her only real quality
legitimacy
virtue is a woman’s only importance. This is why she couldn’t have anything to do with Caliban
The image is the most important thing.
difficult to prove women are virtuous, he doesn’t really know
1.2 Miranda’s melodramatic response
“O, the heavens!” x2
1.2 Prospero demands attention
I pray thee mark me Dost thou attend me? thou attend'st not! I pray thee mark me Dost thou hear? -at the beginning and end of every bit -the attention he himself must give to combatting the existence of evil
1.2 prospero’s focus on family
“My brother, and thy uncle, call’d Antonio”
“I lov’d”
“brother” x7
“my false brother”
“tell me if this might be a brother”
STRUGGLES TO UNDERSTAND HOW EVIL CAN BE EMBEDIED IN THE CLOSEST OF ALL RELATIONSHIPS
1.2 Prospero’s skill in the liberal arts
“without parallel; those being all my study”
1.2 Abandons his tasks
“The government I cast upon my brother, and to my state grew stranger” “rapt in secret studies” “dedicated to closeness and the bettering of my mind”
1.2 What did Antonio do to Prospero’s subjects
“new created the creatures that were mine, I say: or chang’d ‘em or else new form’s ‘em”
(elisions become frequent)
(Antonio has usurped the role of God)
1.2 comparison to ivy and tree
“The ivy which had his my princely trunk, and suck’d my verdure out on’t”
(Misapplied metaphor. Ivy does not suck out the sap, irrational attitude to Antonio. His fear of being overwhelmed by evil, not in possession of his own feelings”
1.2 Prospero describes his trust as
“my trust…no limit, a confidence sans bound”
1.2 Antonio’s actions
“of temporal royalties royalties HE thinks me now incapable” (present tense)
(Prospero never blames himself, was he incapable)
1.2 Why the people did not destroy Prospero
Dear, they durst not, So dear the love my people bore me”
1.2 How they came ashore according to Prospero
By providence divine
1.2 What did Gonzalo furnish them wih
“necessaries” “furnish’d me from mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom” (notice the present tense, he still prizes them above his dukedom, maybe it was all his fault)
1.2 PRospero’s education of Miranda
“here have I, thy schoolmaster, made thee more profit than other princes” (she is the same status as a prince)
1.2 How does Miranda address her father
“sir”
1.2 How does Prospero describe the coming of the ship
“By accident most strange, bountiful Fortune”
1.2 Importance of the moment
“by my prescince I find my zenith doth depend on a most auspicious star; whose influence If I court not, but omit, my fortunes will ever after droop”
1.2 Puts Miranda to sleep
“Thou art inclin’d to sleep. ‘Tis a good dulness, And give it way–I know thou canst not choose”
1.2 CAlling Ariel
Come away, servant, come.
I am ready now
Approach my ARiel. Come.
1.2 Ariel answers Prospero
All hail, great master, grave sir, hail! I come to answer thy bst pleasure”
1.2 What things can ARiel do
“fly…swim…dive into fire…ride on the curl’d clouds”
1.2 What does Prospero ask ARiel
“Perform’d to point the tempest that I bade thee?”
1.2 ARiel’s performance of the task
“To every article”
“now on the beak, now in the waist, the deck, in every cabin,
I flam’d amazement. Sometime I’d divide
And burn in man places; on the topmast,
The yards and bowsprit would I flame distinctly,
Then meet and join”
“Jove’s lightening” “mighty Neptune” seemed to make his “his dread trident shake”
1.2 Ferdinand response to the tempest, yelling as he was the first to leap
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here”
1.2 Ariel like JEsus, like Prospero’s speech
“not a hair perish’d”
1.2 What does Ariel say about their garments
“not a blemish but fresher than before”
1.2 Prospero on the importance of time
“At least two glasses. The time ‘twixt six and now must by us both be spent most preciously”
(two hours past noon the time a Jacobean play would be expected to start, and would be finished by six) the play now shifts to the present
1.2 Ariel thinks he’s being over worked
“is there more TOIL? Since thou dost give me PAINS,
LET ME remember THEE what thou hast PROMIS’D”
“my liberty”
“I have done thee worthy service,
Told thee no lies, made no mistakings, serv’d
Without or grudge or grumblings. Thou did promise
To bate me a full year”
(an asyndetic list to show desperation and excitement)
(like a indenture servant)
1.2 Prospero’s response to Ariel’s demand
“How now? Moody? What is’t thou canst demand?” (his power is being challenged)
“before the time be out? No more”
“Dost thou forget from what a torment I did free thee”
“and thinks’t it much to tread the ooze of the salt deep….”
1.2 PRospero’s opinion on Sycorax’s magic
“mischiefs manifold and sorceries terrible”
1.2 Prospero calls Ariel his servant and Sycorax’s
“Thou, my slave…was then her servant”
notice he is his slave, but just her servant, Prospero over controlling?
1.2 Why was Ariel not a good servant for Sycorax
“thou wast a spirit too delicate to act her earthy and abhorr’d commands”
1.2 What does Prospero say Caliban was not honoured with
“not honour’d with a human shape”
1.2 What Prospero did for Ariel and what he will do
“What torment I did find thee in…Sycorax could not again undo. It was mine art…that made gape the pine and let thee out”
“I will rend an oak and peg thee in his knotty entrails till thou hast howl’d away twelve winters” (fear of the cold)
1.2 When Prospero has said that he will free him in 2 days, Ariel responds
“What shall I do? Say what: what shall I do?”
Slaves positioning
juxtapositioning of Ariel and Caliban
1.2 How does Miranda call Caliban
‘Tis a villain sir, I do not love to look on
1.2 Prospero knows that Caliban benefits them
“serves in offices that profit us”
1.2 What does Prospero call Caliban
thou earth
thou tortoise
poisonous slave
got by the devil himself
1.2 Caliban first address (other than “there’s wood enough within”)
It is a curse that he summons “Drop on you both!”
He follows this by “A south-west blow on ye and blister you all o’er!”
1.2 Prospero threatens Caliban with torture
“tonight thou shalt have cramps, side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up”
“Thou shalt be pinch’s as thick as honeycomb, each pinch more stinging than bees that made ‘em”
later after the argument “If thou neglect’st, or dost unwillinglyWhat I command, I’ll rack thee with old cramps, Fill all thy bones with aches, make thee roar”
1.2 Caliban claims that he is the rightful heir to the island, placed directly after Prospero’s torture threats
“This island’s mine by sycorax my mother,
Which thou tak’st from me…”
1.2 Caliban informs us that Propsero used to treat him well this is attached to the “this island’s mine by…”
”..tak’st from me. When thou cam’st first
Thou strok’st me and made much of me”
(notice tak’st, cam’st, strok’st, which are all action words)
1.2 What did Prospero teach Caliban according to Caliban
full of opposites “bigger light” “the less”
those that “burn by day and night” (childish)
1.2 What did Caliban show Prospero
“fresh springs, brine pits, barren place and fertile” (once against opposites, shows his excitement to show him everything)
