The Tempest Quotes Flashcards
Revenge Quote
Act 1, Scene 2, Line 178
(pg. 19)
“Bountiful fortune…”
“…bountiful Fortune… hath mine enemies brought to this shore… my zenith doth depend upon a most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not… my fortunes will ever after droop.”
Prison Motif Quote
Act 1, Scene 2, Line 19
(pg. 9)
“nought knowing…”
“…nought knowing of whence I am, nor that I am more better than Prospero, master of a full poor cell, and thy no greater father.”
Grief Prison Quote
Act 2, Scene 1, Line 187
(pg. 55)
“I wish mine eyes…”
“Alonso: …I wish mine eyes would with themselves shut up my thoughts…”
Magic and Control Quote
Epilogue, line 12-20
(pg. 145)
“Now I want spirits…”
“Now I want spirits to enforce, art to enchant, and my ending is despair, unless I be relieved by prayer… As you from crimes would pardoned be, let your indulgence set me free.”
Revenge Quote
Act 5, Scene 1, line 26-28
(pg. 127)
“Yet with my…”
“Yet with my nobler reason, ‘gainst my fury do I take part. The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance”
Nature vs Nurture Quote
Act 4, Scene I, line 188-191
(pg. 117)
“A devil…”
“A devil, a born devil, on whose nature nurture can never stick; on whom my pains humanely taken, all, all lost, quite lost…”
Usurpation Quote
Act 1 Scene 2
(pg. 13)
“Thy false uncle…”
[Prospero] “Thy false uncle… set all hearts i’th’state to what tune pleased his ear”
Usurpation Quote
Act 1 Scene 2
(pg. 15)
“He did believe…”
“He did believe he was indeed the duke…”
Usurpation Quote
Act I, Scene 2, line 342-343
(pg. 29)
“For I am all…”
[Caliban]“For I am all the subjects that you have, which first was mine own King”
Marginalisation Prison Quote
Act 1, Scene 2, line 320
(pg. 29)
“Thou poisonous slave…”
“[Prospero]: Thou poisonous slave, got by the devil himself…”
Marginalisation Prison Quote
Act 1, Scene 2, line 352
(pg. 31)
“Abhorred slave…”
“[Miranda]: Abhorred slave, which any imprint of goodness wilt not take…”
Nature vs Nurture Quote
Act 5, Scene 1, line 273
(pg. 141)
“This thing of darkness…”
“[Prospero]: This thing of darkness, I acknowledge mine.”
Nature vs Nurture Quote
Act 5, Scene 1, line 293
(pg. 143)
“I’ll be wise…”
“[Caliban]: I’ll be wise hereafter, and seek for grace.”
Theatre Motif Quote
“Our revels are now ended;…”
“Our revels now are ended; these our actors, as I foretold you, were all spirits, and are melted into air, into thin air… the great globe itself… shall dissolve, and like this insubstantial pageant faded leave not a rack behind.”
