Tempest Quotes

Question 1

Stephano to Caliban

Answer 1

Monster I will kill this man- His daughter and I will be king and queen

Question 2

Prospero about Sycorax

Answer 2

Foul witch Sycorax
Damned witch Sycorax
Blue-eyed hag

Question 3

Prospero to Ferdinand

Answer 3

If thou dost break her virgin knot before all sanctimonious ceremonies may with full and holy rite be ministered…the Union of your bed with weeds so loathly that you shall hate it both

Question 4

Prospero to Ariel

Answer 4

Dost thou forget from what a torment I did free thee?

Question 5

Prospero about Caliban

Answer 5

This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine

Question 6

Ariel to Prospero

Answer 6

All hail, great master; grave sir! I come to answer thy best pleasure

Question 7

Prospero Magic rejection

Answer 7

But this rough magic I here abjure

Question 8

Caliban about the rape of Miranda

Answer 8

Thou didst prevent, I had peopled else this isle with Calibans

Question 9

Caliban to Prospero matrilineal claim

Answer 9

This island’s mine by Sycorax my mother, which thou tak’st from me

Question 10

Caliban about language

Answer 10

You taught me language and my profit on’t is I know how to curse

Question 11

Caliban to Trinculo

Answer 11

I’ll show thee every fertile inch o’th’ Island, and I will kiss thy foot. I prithee be my God

Question 12

Prospero epilogue

Answer 12

Now my charms are all o’erthrown, and what strength I have’s mine own

Question 13

Prospero epilogue final couplet

Answer 13

As you from crimes would pardoned be

Let your indulgences set me free

Question 14

Prospero dreams

Answer 14

We are such stuff as dreams are made on and our little life is rounded with a sleep

Question 15

Caliban to Stephano and Trinculo about the Island

Answer 15

Be not afeard. The Isle is full of noises, sounds and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not

Question 16

Miranda to Prospero Act 1 scene 2

Answer 16

Had I been any god of power, I would have sunk the sea within the earth

Question 17

Miranda to Prospero art

Answer 17

If by your art, my dearest father, you have put the wild waters in this roar, allay them

Question 18

Miranda to Ferdinand central scene

Answer 18

I am your wife, if you will marry me. If not I’ll die your maid

Question 19

Ferdinand about Miranda

Answer 19

She is mortal but by immortal providence she is mine

Question 20

Prospero about Ariel

Answer 20

Why, that’s my dainty Ariel! I shall miss thee But yet thou shalt have freedom

Question 21

Miranda about Ferdinand

Answer 21

I might call him a thing divine, for nothing natural I ever saw so noble

Question 22

Ariel to Prospero

Answer 22

Do you love me master? No?

Dearly, my delicate Ariel

Question 23

Prospero honour rant at Caliban

Answer 23

Thou most lying slave, whom stripes may move, not kindness, I have used thee, filth as thou art, with humane care and lodged thee in mine own cell, till thou didst seek to violate the honour of my child