The Tempest Quotes

Question 1

Prospero accusing Caliban of rape

Answer 1

‘Thou didst seem to violate/ The honour of my child’

Question 2

Caliban using nature to curse Prospero

Answer 2

‘A south-west blow on ye/ and blister you all o’er!’

Question 3

Miranda saying Caliban is born evil

Answer 3

‘Abhorred slave,/ Which any print of goodness wilt not take, / Being capable of all ill’

Question 4

Caliban saying Prospero took the island from him

Answer 4

Act 1 Scene 2 ‘This island’s mine by Scorsc my mother,/ Which thou tak’st from me.’

Question 5

Caliban’s monologue about the island

Answer 5

Act 3 Scene 2 - ‘I cried to dream again’
‘the isle is full of noises,/ Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.’

Question 6

Prospero betraying Caliban - also environmentalist pov

Answer 6

‘I loved thee,/ And show’d thee all the qualities o’th’isle’
Gregory Doran 2016 directed - Caliban on the verge of tears here

Question 7

Prospero acknowledging his impact on Caliban

Answer 7

‘this thing of darkness I/ Acknowledge mine’
Act 5 Scene 1

Question 8

Caliban cursing Prospero’s indoctrination of his language

Answer 8

‘You taught me language, and my profit on’t/ Is I know how to curse’
‘The red plague rid you/For learning me your language!’

Question 9

Antonio on Caliban

Answer 9

‘One is a plain fish, and no doubt marketable.’

Question 10

Claribel not wanting to go through with arranged marriage

Answer 10

‘the fair soul herself/ Weighed between loathness and obedience at/ Which end o’th’beam should bow’
Act 2 Scene 1

Question 11

What does the boatswain say act 1 scene 1 about power

Answer 11

‘What cares these roarers for the name of king?’

Question 12

Prospero about Antionio’s evil nature

Answer 12

‘in my false brother/ Awak’d an evil nature’

Question 13

Prospero not being a good duke

Answer 13

‘my state grew stranger, being transported/And rapt in secret studies.’
my library/ Was dukedom large enough.’

Question 14

Sycorax

Answer 14

‘damn’d witch Sycorax’
‘for one thing she did/ They would not take her life.’
‘blue eyed hag’

Question 15

Antonio about his conscience

Answer 15

‘where lies that?’

Question 16

Miranda about Ferdinand tricking her

Answer 16

‘Sweet lord, you play me false’

Question 17

Caliban about miranda as Stephanie’s wife

Answer 17

act 3 scene 2
‘she will become thy bed’

Question 18

Gonzalo about indigenous people

Answer 18

‘Their manners are more gentle-kind than of/ Our human generation’
act 3 scene 3

Question 19

Prospero evil harpy scene

Answer 19

‘mine enemies are all knit up/ In their distractions’
‘You are three men of sin’ (Ariel)

Question 20

Prospero about making Miranda marrying ferdinand more difficult

Answer 20

Act 1 scene 2
‘ I must uneasy make lest too light winning/ make the prize light’

Question 21

Prospero being reminded of his mortality by Caliban

Answer 21

‘The minute of their plot/ Is almost come’

Question 22

Masque symbolising mortality

Answer 22

Life shall dissolve ‘like this insubstantial pageant faded’

Question 23

Trinculo ridiculing stephano wearing Prospero’s clothes

Answer 23

‘O King Stephano!’

Question 24

Ariel about time / theatre

Answer 24

‘On the sixth hour, at which time, my lord, you said our work should cease.’
Act 5 scene 1

Question 25

Prospero giving up his power act 5 scene 1

Answer 25

‘But this rough magic I here abjure; and when I have requir’d/ Some heavenly music’
‘I’ll drown my book’

Question 26

Prospero’s magic unearthly

Answer 26

‘Graves at my command’

Question 27

Prospero still controlling in epilogue

Answer 27

‘As you from crimes would pardon’s be, Let your indulgence set me free’

Question 28

Miranda as naive about ferdinand

Answer 28

Act 1 scene 2
‘There’s nothing ill can dwell in such a temple’
‘O how beauteous mankind is!’

Question 29

Gonzalos utopian society

Answer 29

Act 2 scene 1 - environmentalist, ‘nature should bring forth/ Of it own kind all foison, all abundance to feed my innocent people’

‘I would with such perfection govern’ - demonstrates how power appeals even to the most noble

Question 30

Miranda first seeing ferdinand

Answer 30

Act 1 scene 2
‘I might call him/ A thing divine, for nothing natural/ I ever saw so noble’

Question 31

Miranda left in the dark by Prospero, knowledge controlled

Answer 31

She is left to ‘boot less inquisition/, concluding stay not yet’
Act 1 scene 2

Question 32

Ferdinand working for Miranda, worth of her

Answer 32

Act 3 scene 1
She makes his ‘labours pleasures’
Prospero makes him carry wood, testing his masculinity to look after his daughter

Question 33

Ferdinand experienced with women

Answer 33

Act 3 scene 1
Argues that ‘some defect in her did quarrel with the noblest grace she ow’d’

Question 34

Miranda in love from Prospero pov:

Answer 34

Act 3 scene 1:
‘Poor worm, thou art infected!’
‘Heavens rain grace on that which breeds between em!’ - in an aside

Question 35

How does Stephano parallel Sebastian’s ambition?

Answer 35

‘Monster, I will kill this man; his daughter and I will be King and Queen’
Act 3 scene 2

Question 36

Caliban subservient to Stephano (mirrors subservience to Prospero)

Answer 36

‘I’ll show thee every fertile inch o’th’island - and I will kiss thy foot’
‘I prithee be my god’
Act 2 Scene 2

Question 37

Stephano exploiting Caliban

Answer 37

Act 4 Scene 1
‘If I should take displeasure against you, look you-‘
‘or I’ll turn you out to my kingdom’
- ironic, not as emotionally intelligent as Calobiban who speaks blank verse