Tempest Quotes Flashcards
Act 1 Scene 1
Boatswain, Sebastian, Antonio, Mariners
Boatswain – ‘These roarers care not for the name of king. To cabin; silence!’
Sebastian – ‘A pox o’ your throat, you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog!’
Antonio – ‘Let’s all sink with the king’, Antonio ‘Let’s take leave of him’
Mariners – ‘All lost! To prayers, to prayers! All lost!…Farewell my wife and children! Farewell, brother’
Act 1 Scene 2 p1
Miranda & Prospero 1
Miranda – ‘O, I have suffer’d / With those I saw suffer’
Prospero – ‘Tell your piteous heart there’s no harm done.’
Prospero – ‘I have done nothing but in care of thee, / Of thee, my daughter, thee, my dear one’
Prospero – ‘Lie there, my art.’
Act 1 Scene 2 p2
Miranda & Prospero 2
Miranda – ‘O, I have suffer’d / With those I saw suffer’
Prospero – ‘Tell your piteous heart there’s no harm done.’
Prospero – ‘I have done nothing but in care of thee, / Of thee, my daughter, thee, my dear one’
Prospero – ‘Lie there, my art.’
Act 1 Scene 2 p3
Ariel & Prospero 1
Ariel – ‘All hail, great master! Grave sir, hail!’
Ariel (on the tempest) – ‘I flam’d amazement. / Sometime I’d divide and burn in many places’
Ariel tells Prospero – Ferdinand ‘cried “Hell is empty, and all the devils are here.”, to which Prospero replies ‘Why, that’s my spirit’
Prospero – ‘But are they, Ariel, safe?’ Ariel – ‘Not a hair perish’d’
Act 1 Scene 2 p4
Ariel & Prospero 2
Ariel – ‘My liberty’
Prospero on Sycorax – ‘her earthy and abhorr’d commands’
Ariel was ‘imprison’d’ ‘into a cloven pine’ for ‘a dozen years’, Prospero threatens to ‘peg’ Ariel into an oak ‘until thou hast howl’d away twelve winters’
Ariel to Prospero – ‘I will be correspondent to command / And do my spriting gently’
Act 1 Scene 2 p5
Caliban & Prospero 1
Caliban to Prospero – ‘A south-west blow on ye, / And blister you all o’er’
Prospero to Caliban – ‘For this be sure tonight thou shalt have cramps’
Caliban – ‘This island’s mine by Sycorax my mother, / Which thou tak’st from me.’
Caliban – ‘here you sty me / In this hard rock’
Prospero – ‘I have us’d thee – / Filth as thou art – with humane care…till thou didst seek to violate / The honour of my child.’
Act 1 Scene 2 p6
Caliban & Prospero 2
Caliban – ‘O ho, O ho! Would’t had been done! Thou didst prevent me – I had peopled else / This isle with Calibans.’
Caliban to Miranda – ‘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!’
Caliban (aside) – ‘I must obey. His art is of such power, / It would control my dam’s god Setebos / And make a vassal of him’
Act 1 Scene 2 p7
Ariel, Prospero & Ferdinand
Ariel – ‘Full fathom five thy father lies, / Of his bones are coral made; / Those are pearls that were his eyes’
Prospero to Miranda – ‘The fringed curtains of thine eye advance’
Ferdinand to Miranda – ‘Mine eyes, never since at ebb, beheld / The king my father wreck’d’
Prospero (aside) – ‘At the first sight / They have chang’d eyes. Delicate Ariel, / I’ll set thee free for this.’
Act 1 Scene 2 p8
Miranda & Prospero
Miranda – This / Is the third man that I e’er saw, the first / That e’er I sigh’d for’
Miranda – There’s nothing ill can dwell in such a temple. / If the ill spirit have so fair a house, / Good things will strive to dwell with’t.’
Prospero to Miranda – ‘What, I say – / My foot my tutor?
Act 2 Scene 1 p1
Gonzalo, Antonio & Sebastian 1
Dialogue:
Gonzalo – ‘How lush and lusty the grass looks. How green!’
Antonio – ‘The ground is indeed tawny.’
Sebastian – ‘With an eye of green in’t.’
Act 2 Scene 1 p2
Gonzalo, Antonio & Sebastian 2
Sebastian to Alonso – criticizes decision to ‘not bless our Europe with your daughter, / But rather loose her to an African’.
Gonzalo to Sebastian – ‘you rub the sore / When you should bring the plaster’
Antonio to Alonso – ‘Promises to ‘guard your person’ and ‘watch your safety.’
Act 2 Scene 1 p3
Antonio & Sebastian
Antonio to Sebastian –
‘Th’ occasion speaks thee, and / My strong imagination sees a crown / Dropping upon thy head
Flattery from prefix: ‘Noble Sebastian’, ‘Sir’
Sebastian ‘But for your conscience?,
Antonio ‘Ay, sir, where lies that?
Act 2 Scene 1 p4
Antonio & Ariel
Antonio to Sebastian –
‘Can lay to bed for ever’, put ‘to the perpetual wink’
Ariel – ‘While you here do snoring lie, Open-eyed conspiracy’ is taking place
Act 2 Scene 2 p1
Caliban
Caliban – ‘All the infections that the sun sucks up / From bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall’
Stage directions – ‘A noise of thunder heard’
Caliban – ‘His spirits hear me, / And yet I needs must curse’
‘sometime am I / All wound with adders, who with cloven tongues / Do hiss me into madness’
Act 2 Scene 2 p2
Caliban & Stephano
Caliban to Stephano – ‘I will kiss thy foot. I prithee be my god…I’ll kiss thy foot. I’ll swear myself thy subject.’
Caliban to Stephano – ‘I’ll show thee the best springs’, ‘Thou wondrous man’, ‘I with my long nails will dig thee pig-nuts
Act 3 Scene 1 p1
Ferdinand & Prospero
Ferdinand – ‘The mistress which I serve quickens what’s dead, / And makes my labours pleasures.’
‘I had rather crack my sinews, break my back / Than you should such dishonour undergo / While I sit lazy by’
Prospero – ‘poor worm, thou art infected!’
Act 3 Scene 1 p2
Miranda & Ferdinand
Miranda – ‘Do you love me?’, Ferdinand – ‘I, / Beyond all limit of what else I’th’ world, / Do love, prize, honour you.’
Grossly exaggerated love – parody of earlier plays
Miranda to Ferdinand – ‘I am your wife if you will marry me; / If not, I’ll die your maid.’
Very bold, yet also submissive – AO4
Act 3 Scene 2
Caliban & Stephano
Caliban - There thou mayst brain him, / Having first seiz’d his books; or with a log / Batter his skull, or paunch him with a stake’
Stephano – ‘At thy request, monster, I will do reason, any reason’ (anything within reason)
Caliban – ‘Art thou afraid?…Be not afraid, the isle is full of noises, / Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.’
Act 3 Scene 3 p1
Sebastian & Gonzalo
Sebastian – ‘[Aside to Antonio] The next advantage / Will we take thoroughly.
Gonzalo - ‘Though they are of monstrous shape. Yet note / Their manners are more gentle-kind than of / Our human generation you shall find / Many, nay almost any.
Double conjunction – emphasises reversal of expectations
Act 3 Scene 2 p2
Ariel & Gonzalo
Ariel to Alonso, Antonio and Sebastian – ‘You are three men of sin, whom Destiny…the never-surfeited sea / Hath caused to belch up you’
‘You fools, I and my fellows are ministers of fate’
Gonzalo – ‘their great guilt, / Like poison given to work a great time after, / Now ‘gins to bite the spirits.’
Act 4 Scene 1 p1
Prospero & Ferdinand
fFerdinand ‘dost break her virgin-knot’ before marriage, threatens their relationship with barren hate, / Sour-eye disdain, and discord shall bestrew / The union of your bed with weeds so loathly / That you shall hate it both.’
Ferdinand – ‘Let me live here ever’, calls the island ‘paradise’.
Act 4 Scene 1 p2
Prospero
Prospero – ‘Our revels now are ended. These our actors, / As I foretold you, were all spirits…the great globe itself…We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life / Is rounded with a sleep.’
Act 4 Scene 1 p3
Prospero on Caliban
Prospero – ‘A devil, a born devil, on whose nature / Nurture can never stick’
Prospero – ‘On whom my pains, / Humanely taken, all, all lost, quite lost’
Prospero – ‘As with age his body uglier grows, / So his mind cankers. I will plague them all, / Even to roaring.’
Act 4 Scene 1 p4
Prospero - grind / mine enemies
Prospero – ‘grind their joints with dry convulsions’
Prospero – ‘At this hour / Lies at my mercy all mine enemies.’
Act 5 Scene 1 p1
Prospero & Ariel
‘Now does my project gather to a head. My charms crack not’
Semantic field of alchemy
Ariel – ‘the good old Lord Gonzalo, / His tears runs down his beard like winter’s drops / From eaves of reeds. Your charm so strongly works ‘em / That if you now beheld them, your affections / Would become tender.’ Prospero – ‘Dost thou think so, spirit?’ Ariel – ‘Mine would, sir, were I human.’ Propsero – ‘And mine shall’
Act 5 Scene 1 p2
Prospero - noble reason / rarer action
Prospero – ‘nobler reason ‘gainst my fury’
St Augustine
Prospero – ‘The rarer action is / In virtue than in vengeance.’
Act 5 Scene 1 p3
Prospero - bedimm’d
‘I have bedimm’d / The noontide sun, call’d forth the mutinous winds, / And ’twixt the green sea and the azur’d vault / Set roaring war…By my so potent art. But this rough magic / I here abjure’
Highly poetic, descriptive language with adjectives before many nouns and multiple spondees infer passion for magic, showing temptation of power and difficulty to relinquish it
Act 5 Scene 1 p4
Prospero - break my staff
I’ll break my staff, / Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, / And deeper than did ever plummet sound / I’ll drown my book’
Future tense
Hyperbole – suggests his promise is not grounded in reality, it is purely rhetoric
His ways of getting rid of his magic appear to require magic
Act 5 Scene 1 p5
Prospero - dramatic entrance
Prospero – ‘Ariel, fetch me the hat and rapier in my cell.’
Prospero – ‘Behold, sir king, / The wronged Duke of Milan, Prospero.’
Dramatic, theatrical, ostentatious entrance
Prospero – ‘Welcome, my friends all!’ shortly followed by ‘No. For you, most wicked sir, whom to call brother / Would even infect my mouth, I do forgive / Thy rankest fault – all of them – and require / My dukedom of thee, which perforce I know / Thou must restore.’
Act 5 Scene 1 p6
Alonso, Miranda & Prospero
Alonso – ‘I wish / Myself were mudded in that oozy bed / Where my son lies.’
Stage directions – ‘Here Prospero discovers Ferdinand and Miranda playing at chess’,
Miranda – ‘O wonder! / How many goodly creatures are there here! / How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world / That has such people in’t!’,
Prospero – ‘’Tis new to thee.’
Act 5 Scene 1 p7
Ariel, Prospero & Caliban
Ariel to Prospero – ‘Was’t well done?’, Prospero to Ariel – ‘Bravely, my diligence. Thou shalt be free.’
Caliban – ‘O Setebos, these be brave spirits indeed. / How fine my master is! I am afraid / He will chastise me.’
Act 5 Scene 1 p8
Sebastian & Antonio
Sebastian – ‘What things are these, my lord Antonio? / Will money buy ‘em?’,
Antonio – ‘Very like. One of them / Is a plain fish, and no doubt marketable’
Critiques a society obsessed with money – AO4
Same reaction as Trinculo – ‘strange fish’ Act 2 Sc 2
Act 5 Scene 1 p9
Prospero, Alonso & Caliban
Prospero – calls Caliban a ‘misshapen knave’, but says ‘this thing of darkness I / Acknowledge mine.’
Caliban – ‘I shall be pinch’d to death!’
Alonso – indicates Caliban and says ‘This is a strange thing as e’er I look’d on.’
Prospero – ‘He is as disproportion’d in his manners / As in his shape.’
Act 5 Scene 1 p10
Caliban & Prospero
Caliban – ‘I’ll be wise hereafter, / And seek for grace. What a thrice-double ass / Was I to take this drunkard for a god, / And worship this dull fool!’
Forced? Fears Prospero will punish him otherwise
Prospero – wants to ‘retire me to my Milan, where / Every third thought shall be my grave.’
Epilogue
all Prospero
‘As you from crimes would pardon’d be, /
Let your indulgence set me free.’
