The Tempest: Quotations

Question 1

Sebastian

Answer 1

“A pox o’your throat, you bawing, blasphemous, inheritable dog.”

Question 2

Caliban

Answer 2

Per Prospero - “poisonous slave got by the devil himself”, “abhorred slave”, “Hag-seed”, “tortoise”.

“All the charms Of Sycorax, toads, beetles, bats, light on you!”

Question 3

Antonio

Answer 3

“Hang, cur, hand, you whoreson, insolent noisemaker.”

Question 4

Alonso

Answer 4

“Good boatswain, have care. Where’s the master Play the men?”

Question 5

That one long Caliban quote…

Answer 5

“Be not afeared; the isle is full of noises, sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments will hum about mine ears; and sometimes voices, that if I then had waked after a long sleep, will make me sleep again.”

Question 6

Gonzalo

Answer 6

“My lord, Sebastian, the truth you speak doth lack some gentleness, and time speak it in; you rub the sore when you should bring the plaster.”