The Tempest Flashcards
Prospero: dwelling
“master of a full poor cell” -> monk
Prospero: immersion in books
library was “dukedom large enough” -> foreshadowing
“to my state grew stranger”
“volumes that I prize above my dukedom”
Prospero: control + power
“Dost thou attend me?”
Tight structure, unity of action, time and place (Aristotelian unities)
Prospero: influence of magic
“thou art inclined to sleep”
“hair up-staring”
Prospero: severe
to Ariel: “thou liest, malignant thing”
to Caliban: threatens to “rack thee with old cramps”
to Ferdinand: “traitor”, “impostor”, “I’ll manacle thy neck and feet together”
to Miranda: “my foot my tutor?”, “make me chide thee, if not hate thee”
Prospero: decline of power
“old brain”
“faint”
Prospero: virginity and chastity
“barren hate, sour-eyed disdain and discord”
Prospero: orchestrates romance
“they are both in either’s powers”
Prospero: masque
“vanity of mine art” -> disillusionment?
rhyming couplet -> different tone
Juno: be “prosperous” and “honoured in their issue”
Ferdinand: “most majestic vision”
Prospero: forgiveness
“rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance”
Prospero: gives up magic
“this rough magic I here abjure”
“I’ll drown my book” -> irony?
Ariel: respect
“great master”
Ariel: Prospero’s praise
harpy: “a grace it had, devouring”
“that’s my spirit”
Ariel: energy, vitality
“to fly, to swim, to dive into the fire” (ascending tricolon)
Ariel: Elemental power
“dreadful thunderclaps”
“fire and cracks of sulphurous roaring” - onomatopoeic. Alchemy?
Ariel: divine power
“Jove’s lightning”
makes Neptune’s “dread trident shake”
Ariel: compassion
“too delicate to act her earthy and abhorred commands”
“a feeling of their afflictions”
Miranda: sensitive and compassionate
“I have suffered/With those that I saw suffer”
feminine ending
Miranda: physical attraction to Ferdinand
“brave form”, “divine”, “temple”
Miranda: love, an illusion?
“say what thou seest yond”: perspective
“ ‘tis a spirit”
Miranda: love is restrictive
“I’ll be your servant” — willing
Ferdinand: physical attraction to Miranda
“I’ll make you the Queen of Naples” => love is powerful
“goddess”
“wonder”
Ferdinand: experienced, worldly
liked “several women”, but Miranda is “perfect”, “created of every creature’s best”
(compare with Miranda’s lack of experience and chastity)
Ferdinand: humility
Miranda: “mine unworthiness”
Ferdinand: “I thus humble ever”
Ferdinand: works for love
thought of Miranda “makes my labours pleasures” => power of love
Caliban: despised
“thou earth”, “thou tortoise”
“poisonous slave, got by the devil himself”
Caliban: resentful
“make him by inchmeal a disease”
Caliban: rightful owner
“This island’s mine by Sycorax”
Caliban: fear of Prospero
“I must obey: his art is of such power”
Caliban: generosity
“showed thee all the qualities o’th’ isle”
Caliban: language
“my profit on’t is I know how to curse”
Caliban: Prospero’s initial treatment
used him with “humane care”
Caliban: strange appearance
“a man or a fish?”
“mooncalf”
Caliban: illusion of freedom
“I will kiss thy foot. I prithee, be my god.”
(-> Antonio’s “ignoble stooping”)
“celestial liquor”
Alonso: guilt
“poison” -> physical harm
Alonso: depression
suicidal thoughts: “with him there lie mudded”
Gonzalo: love to Prospero
“noble Neapolitan” gave “food” and “fresh water”
Gonzalo: optimism
“weigh our sorrow with our comfort”
Gonzalo: utopia
“No occupation, all men idle”
“excel the Golden Age”
“Thou dost talk nothing to me”
Antonio: gained control
“perfected how to grant suits, how to deny them”
-> Machiavelli’s The Prince
Antonio: harmed Prospero
“ivy” that “sucked my verdure out”
Antonio: cowardly
“treacherous army” came in the “dead of darkness”
Antonio: persuasive
flattery: “noble Sebastian”, “worthy Sebastian”
Alonso “no better than the earth he lies upon”
Lack of conscience: “I feel not this deity in my bosom”
Sebastian: insulting
to the boatswain: "you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog" => class conflict
Stephano: parallels with Antonio
plot to kill Prospero “asleep”
=> men of all ranks can be evil
Stephano: parody of language of royal courts
“supplant some of your teeth”
Caliban as “viceroy”
Stephano: greed
clothes
Miranda
(parallels with Antonio)
Trinculo: form
speaks in prose => social class, drunkenness?
Boatswain: upturned hierarchy
Orders the nobility: “You mar our labour. Keep your cabins!”
=> nature upsets hierarchy
“What cares these roarers for the name of King?”
=> power of nature, vulnerability/fragility of man and social hierarchy
