The Tempest Flashcards
Speed in scene is indicated through the reduction in sentence structure
‘If room enough’ / ‘have care’
First line of the play
‘Boatswain’
Predestination in Scene 1
‘His is complexion perfect gallows’
Fate in the Lord’s Prayer Scene 1
‘The wills above be done’
Boatswain seeing storm as a challenge
‘Blow till thou burst thy wind, if room enough!’
Hierarchy in the storm
‘What cares these roarers for the name of the King?’/ ‘remember whom he hath aboard’
Empathetic Miranda
‘I have suffered with those that I saw suffer’
Prospero checking Miranda/Audience is listening
‘Dost thou attend me?’ ‘Dost thou hear?
Metatheatre
‘These our actors’
Prospero threatening Miranda
‘One word more shall make me chide thee, if not hate thee’
Ariel subservient to Prospero
‘All hail, great master’ ‘I come to answer thy best pleasure’
Prospero calling Ariel a liar
‘thou liest malignant thin
Caliban language
‘You taught me language, and my profit on’t is I know how to curse’
Miranda first seeing Ferdinand
‘I might call him a thing divine, for nothing natural I ever saw so noble’
Ferdinand first seeing Miranda
‘The Goddess on whom these airs attend’/’I’ll make you The Queen of Naples’
Miranda acknowledging her own ignorance
‘this is the third man that e’er I saw, the first that e’er I sigh’d for’
Prospero stating if they fall in love too easily the love is weaker than if they have to fight for it
‘too light winning make the prize light’
Gonzalo Utopia Speech
I’th’Commonwealth
‘should not be known; riches, poverty’
Antonio persuading Sebastian to kill his brother
‘my strong imagination sees a crown dropping upon thy head’
Caliban to Sebastian and Trinculo
‘I will kneel to him’, ‘Be thy true subject’ ‘I’ll show you every fertile inch of the island’
Caliban seeing lowly jesters and butlers as Kings
‘A most ridiculous monster to make a wonder of a poor drunkard!
Ferdinand on Miranda compared to Prospero
‘ten times more gentle than her father’ ‘he’s composed of harshness’
Ferdinand ‘jewel’ quote about Miranda
‘By my modesty, the jewel in my dower, I would not wish any companion in the world but you’
Foreshadowing of wedding vows
‘Do love, prize and honour you’
Miranda’s marriage demands
‘I am your wife, if you will marry me, if not, I’ll die your maid. To be your fellow you may deny me, but I’ll be your servant whether you will or no’
Caliban - most beautiful lines of the play
‘The clouds me thought would open and show riches ready to drop upon me, that when I wak’d I cried to dream again’
Prospero is nothing without his books
‘First possess his books for without them, he’s but a sot’
Gonzalo about the power hungry men
‘All three of them are desperate: their great guilt, like poison’
Nurture/nature
‘A devil, a born evil, on whose nature, nurture can never stick’ / ‘Good wombs have born bad sons’
Paradigm shift in Prospero
‘The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance’
Miranda’s Brave New World
‘How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world that has such people in’t!’
Prospero giving up magic
‘my charms are all o’erthrown’
Prospero epilogue
‘As you from crimes would pardon’d be, let your indulgence set me free’
Prospero sees the malevolence in Caliban, in himself
‘this thing of darkness I, acknowledges mine’
