The Tempest Critical Quotations Flashcards
Thompson says
“Miranda… has fully internalised the patriarchal assumption that a women’s main function is to provide a legitimate succession.”
Brett says
“Miranda’s apparent freedom is entirely illusionary.”
Gibson says
“Shakespeare presents a Eurocentric view of colonisation in The Tempest.”
Berry says
“Caliban is ‘the other’ and Prospero has power over him through language.”
Orgel says
“Repentance in The Tempest is a largely unachieved goal.”
Todd says
“Only Caliban’s body is enslaved.”
Lindley says
“modern habits of mind… do not accept, as Shakespeare’s society generally did, that the authority of duke over subject, master over servant, father over child, is fundamental unquestionable.”
Marx says
“Religion is the opiate of the masses.”
Marxist critic says
Challenges the social and political heirachy and the class divide which elevated Prospero’s position while diminishing Caliban’s.
Buchanan
“There is no gender imbalance so startlingly extreme elsewhere in Shakespeare.”
Wells says
“Female virginity is ‘a source of intolerable anxiety’ among the male characters.”
Bloom says
“[Prospero] contributed to his own downfall”
Bloom says
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“no audience has ever liked Prospero”
Dowden says
“Prospero is a great enchanter”
Unwin says
“He is a tyrant”
