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’