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The Tempest Flashcards

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Act 1 Sc 2 C.’s first appearance - Quotes
-Caliban, Prospero?

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  • ‘strok’st’ - pet, patronised
  • ‘teach me how’ - Eurocentric view of P.
  • Iambic pentameter - eloquence + human
  • ‘I loved thee’ - emotive
  • ‘toads, beetles, bats - light on you!’ - tonal shift to anger, use of invective, corruption of nature
  • ‘Thou didst seek to violate the honour of my child’ - P. to C.
  • ‘O ho, O ho!’ - C. doesn’t care, tone
  • As P. recounts the usurpation of himself by A. and A., we feel sympathy due to the strong emphasis on their fraternal relationship and the conduct of A. on the boat
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Act 1 Sc 2 C.’s first appearance - Context

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C. comes from within and he and P. have an argument

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Act 2 Sc 2 C. meets S. and T. - Quotes
- Caliban, Stephano and Trinculo

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  • ‘strange beast’ - monster
  • ‘four legs’ - animal
  • ‘they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian’ - C. is a curio
  • ‘I am the man in the moon’ - Steph.
  • ‘I prithee be my god’ - C. needs someone to serve
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Act 2 Sc 2 C. meets S. and T. - Context

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Caliban’s soliloquy - cursing Prospero
S. and T. find him and convince him they are gods

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Act 3 Sc 2 Plot to murder P. - Quotes
- Caliban, Prospero?

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  • ‘books’ - repetition, intelligence (he knows P.’s power comes from the books?
  • ‘nonpareil’ - aesthetic sensibility, appreciates Miranda’s beauty
  • ‘batter…paunch…cut’ - triplet, graphic violence, plosives, aggressive verbs by C.

Later:

  • Iambic rhythm - nobility
  • ‘Sounds and sweet airs’ - gentle sibilance
  • Gentle tone
    • all = poetic
  • ‘dreaming’ - deeper feelings, sensitivity, emotive, escaping from servitude in sleep?
  • ‘When Prospero is destroyed’ - contrast, abrupt, short syntax
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Act 3 Sc 2 Plot to murder P. - Context

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C. plots to murder P. with T. and S.
C. later describes his dreams

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Act 1 Sc 2 P. reassures M. - Quotes
- Miranda

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  • ‘allay them’ - imperative, strong feeling wants P. to stop the tempest
  • ‘O, I have suffered’ - repetition of emotive verb + ejaculation = emotion, empathising with people on boat
  • ‘noble creature’ (people on the boat) - innocent belief in goodness
  • ‘my dear one’ - term of endearment; loves Miranda
  • ‘Did never meddle with my thoughts’ - loyal, naïve, compliant
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Act 1 Sc 2 P. reassures M. - Context

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The boat has just sunk and Miranda is worried about the people on it

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Act 1 Sc 2 M. meets F. - Quotes
- Miranda, Ferdinand, Prospero

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Miranda:

  • ‘Alack, for mercy!’ - compassionate response; F. believes father is dead, religious noun
  • ‘temple’ - metaphor for F.’s beautiful body - assumes goodness, religious + deifies him
  • ‘Make not too rash a trial of him’ - Imperative = assertive in compassion

Ferdinand:

  • ‘the goddess’ - deifies M.
  • Eloquent + Hyperbolic = stereotypical lover in a romance
  • ‘draws’ his sword - strong and cares deeply about M.

Prospero:

  • ‘How? The best?’ - interrogative, short syntax = anger? just testing F.?
  • ‘Make the prize light’ - makes trials hard so that F. feels more accomplished when he “wins” M., good father? protective? ‘prize’ - M. objectified, commodity
  • ‘charmed from moving’ - absolute power of P.
  • exclamations and accusations, abusive
  • repeated ‘aside’ show that it is all his plan
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Act 1 Sc 2 M. meets F. - Context

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As is P.’s plan, M. meets F. and falls in love

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Act 4 Sc 1 F. has “won” M. - Quotes
Prospero, Ferdinand, Miranda

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  • ‘Compensation’ - language of trading/finance - M. is a commodity, P.’s political need for stability and status
  • ‘trials’ - romance trope + M’s marriage decided by father
  • ‘outstrip all praise and make it halt behind her’ - metaphor, personification = M. is beyond praise
  • Ferdinand hardly speaks - compliant + happy
  • Prospero dominates conversation
  • Miranda is silent and passive
  • ‘Break her virgin-knot’ - P. warns F. because religious
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Act 4 Sc 1 F. has “won” M. - Context

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P. tells F. that he has completed the trials but warns against sex before marriage - religious

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Stage Directions - Quotes

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  • ‘an honest old councillor’ - Describing Gonzalo
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Act 1 Sc 1 The Tempest - Quotes

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  • Establishes G. as a positive character to whom the audience will respond warmly
  • ‘Be patient’ - G. to Boatswain - He is a calming influence
  • Boatswain takes charge of the nobles = shifting power
  • Antonio is angry and curses
  • G. contrasts this by accepting his fate philosophically and is emotive and poetic, creating sympathy.
  • A.S. are verbally aggressive to the boatswain, foreshadowing their later behaviour
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Act 3 Sc 3 The Banquet - Quotes

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  • G. is appreciative and positive
  • When A. appears as a harpy, G. tries to de-escalate the situation
  • Alonso eats from the banquet and doesn’t mind if it kills him
  • Alonso’s suffering is punishment for his sins (Ariel’s speech)
  • A.S. try to fight P.’s spirits - aggression, and continue plot to kill

Ariel Speech:

  • ‘men of sin’ - nobles, trying to scare them into becoming better for P.
  • ‘unfit to live’ - reminds them of their powerlessness
  • tells them they must repent and become virtuous to save themselves
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Act 5 Sc 1 P.’s final speech - Quotes

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  • When Alonso meets P., he is repentant and still believes F. is dead, sad and humble acceptance of loss.
  • When Alonso meets F. and M., he is proud and emotional.
  • P. shows love and respect for G. in strong, reverential language - ‘Holy Gonzalo’
  • P. recognising G.’s goodness is a sign of P.’s goodness? P. embraces G.
  • ‘Amen’ - G. says in response to Alonso blessing the marriage of F. and M.=happy ending to dramatic comedy
  • P. accuses A.S. of attempted murder
  • ‘I do forgive thee, / Unnatural though thou art’ - P. to Antonio, ‘unnatural’ = unusual way to describe ‘civilised’ men, more likely C. - Eurocentric+Colonialism.
  • When the drunks appear, A.S. return to confident mockery.
  • Ariel shows compassion for the nobles - ‘your affections/Would become tender’
  • This convinces P. to take pity on them, A. is responsible for the happy ending.
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Gonzalo’s Function

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  • Compassionate, kind, loyal, faith in humanity, hope.
  • Contrast A. and S.
  • Relationships with A. and P. = their goodness
  • Presents utopian vision for a better world.
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Act 2 Sc 1 Nobles arrive on the island

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  • Gonzalo is optimistic and grateful to be alive
  • He is also the ‘plaster’ - metaphor=peacemaker and comforter
  • G. has a utopian vision, reflects the idea of a noble savage.
  • When A. puts G. and Alonso to sleep, Antonio and Sebastian plot to kill them and when he awakes, his first thought is to protect Alonso.
  • Sympathy for Alonso as he grieves for his thought to be dead son and A. and S. plot to kill him
  • A.S. mock G., witty wordplay shows intelligence but vs. a kind old man is cruel
  • They blame Alonso for their situation as it was his daughter’s wedding they were attending even though he is grieving
  • They draw their swords to kill A. and G. but are stopped by Ariel
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Alonso Overall

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Guilty of political manoeuvring and ?cruelty? but is a loving father
He is repentant and is redeemed, contrasts Seb who wants to kill him.

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A.S. Themes

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Witty
Fuelled by ambition and desire for power
Unrepentant
Contrasts good
Nature vs Nurture - inherently evil

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Act 1 Sc 2 Ariel cowed into submission

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  • ‘is there more toil?’ - toil = emphatic noun, Establishes A. as working for P.
  • ‘thou liest, malignant thing’ - P. abuses A. + forces A. to relive torture from S.
  • ‘I thank thee, master’ - A. cowed into submission

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