The Tempest Quotes Flashcards
Prospero accusing Caliban of rape
‘Thou didst seem to violate/ The honour of my child’
Caliban using nature to curse Prospero
‘A south-west blow on ye/ and blister you all o’er!’
‘All the charms of Sycorax, toads, beetles, bats, light on you!’
Miranda saying Caliban is born evil
‘Abhorred slave,/ Which any print of goodness wilt not take, / Being capable of all ill’
Caliban saying Prospero took the island from him
Act 1 Scene 2 ‘This island’s mine by Scorsc my mother,/ Which thou tak’st from me.’
Caliban’s monologue about the island
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.’
Prospero betraying Caliban - also environmentalist pov
‘I loved thee,/ And show’d thee all the qualities o’th’isle’
Gregory Doran 2016 directed - Caliban on the verge of tears here
Prospero acknowledging his impact on Caliban
‘this thing of darkness I/ Acknowledge mine’
Act 5 Scene 1
Caliban cursing Prospero’s indoctrination of his language
‘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!’
Antonio on Caliban
‘One is a plain fish, and no doubt marketable.’
Claribel not wanting to go through with arranged marriage
‘the fair soul herself/ Weighed between loathness and obedience at/ Which end o’th’beam should bow’
Act 2 Scene 1
What does the boatswain say act 1 scene 1 about power
‘What cares these roarers for the name of king?’
Prospero about Antionio’s evil nature
‘in my false brother/ Awak’d an evil nature’
Prospero not being a good duke
‘my state grew stranger, being transported/And rapt in secret studies.’
my library/ Was dukedom large enough.’
Sycorax
‘damn’d witch Sycorax’
‘for one thing she did/ They would not take her life.’
‘blue eyed hag’
Antonio about his conscience
‘where lies that?’
Miranda about Ferdinand tricking her
‘Sweet lord, you play me false’
Caliban about miranda as Stephanie’s wife
act 3 scene 2
‘she will become thy bed’
Gonzalo about indigenous people
‘Their manners are more gentle-kind than of/ Our human generation’
act 3 scene 3
Prospero evil harpy scene
‘mine enemies are all knit up/ In their distractions’
‘You are three men of sin’ (Ariel)
Prospero about making Miranda marrying ferdinand more difficult
Act 1 scene 2
‘ I must uneasy make lest too light winning/ make the prize light’
Prospero being reminded of his mortality by Caliban
‘The minute of their plot/ Is almost come’
Masque symbolising mortality
Life shall dissolve ‘like this insubstantial pageant faded’
Trinculo ridiculing stephano wearing Prospero’s clothes
‘O King Stephano!’
Ariel about time / theatre
‘On the sixth hour, at which time, my lord, you said our work should cease.’
Act 5 scene 1
Prospero giving up his power act 5 scene 1
‘But this rough magic I here abjure; and when I have requir’d/ Some heavenly music’
‘I’ll drown my book’
Prospero’s magic unearthly
‘Graves at my command’
Prospero still controlling in epilogue
‘As you from crimes would pardon’s be, Let your indulgence set me free’
Miranda as naive about ferdinand
Act 1 scene 2
‘There’s nothing ill can dwell in such a temple’
‘O how beauteous mankind is!’
Gonzalos utopian society
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
Miranda first seeing ferdinand
Act 1 scene 2
‘I might call him/ A thing divine, for nothing natural/ I ever saw so noble’
Miranda left in the dark by Prospero, knowledge controlled
She is left to ‘boot less inquisition/, concluding stay not yet’
Act 1 scene 2
Ferdinand working for Miranda, worth of her
Act 3 scene 1
She makes his ‘labours pleasures’
Prospero makes him carry wood, testing his masculinity to look after his daughter
Ferdinand experienced with women
Act 3 scene 1
Argues that ‘some defect in her did quarrel with the noblest grace she ow’d’
Miranda in love from Prospero pov:
Act 3 scene 1:
‘Poor worm, thou art infected!’
‘Heavens rain grace on that which breeds between em!’ - in an aside
How does Stephano parallel Sebastian’s ambition?
‘Monster, I will kill this man; his daughter and I will be King and Queen’
Act 3 scene 2
Caliban subservient to Stephano (mirrors subservience to Prospero)
‘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
Stephano exploiting Caliban
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
Act 5 Scene 1 Ariel release
‘My Ariel, chick,/That is thy charge’
Act 5 Scene 1 Prospero about Caliban
‘This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine’
Prospero nihilism Act 5 Scene 1
‘And thence retire me to my Milan,/ Where every third thought shall be my grave’
Ariel Act 4 Scene 1 affection to Prospero
‘Do you love me master?’
Act 4 Scene 1 monologue
•‘the rarer action is in virtue rather than vengeance’
•’We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life/ Is rounded with a sleep’
•’like this insubstantial pageant faded/ Leave not a rack behind’
Act 4 scene 1 nature vs nurture
‘A devil, a born devil, on whose nature/ Nurture can never stick’
Ariel about Prospero’s cruelty Act 5 Scene 1
‘If you not beheld them, your affections/ Would become tender’
‘Mind would, sir, were I human’
Prospero about Stephano as king
‘You’d be king o’the isle sirrah’
‘I should have been a sore one then’
Prospero forgiving Antonio Act 5 Scene 1
‘For you, most wicked sir, whom to call brother/ Would even infect my mouth, I do forgive/Thy rankest fault’
Caliban last line
‘I’ll be wise hereafter and seek for grace’ - learnt a lesson from Prospero
Caliban reaction to Trinculo comic foil to Miranda’s reaction to Ferdinand Act 2 Scene 2
‘Hast thou not dropped from heaven?’
Caliban clever in manipulating Stephano and Trinculo
Act 2 Scene 2 “I say by sorcery he got this isle; From me he got it. If thy greatness will Revenge it on him – for I know thou dar’st.”
‘She’ll become thy bed I warrant’ act 3 scene 2
Antonio lust for power Act 1 Scene 2
‘he was/ The ivy which had hid my princely trunk; And suck’d my verdure out on’t’
Prospero cruelty towards Caliban Act 1 Scene 2
‘Thou shalt be pinch’d as thick as honeycomb, each pinch more stinging than bees that made ‘em’
‘I’ll rack thee with old cramps, Fill all thy bones with aches, make thee roar’
Caliban fear of Prospero Act 1 Scene 2
‘I must obey. His art is of such power’
Ariel power
‘I flam’d amazement’ Act 1 Scene 2
‘Full fathom five thy father lies, / of his bones are coral made’ Act 1 Scene 2
‘I have made you mad’ - Act 3 Scene 3
‘The fire and cracks
Of sulfurous roaring the most mighty Neptune/ Seem to besiege and make his bold waves tremble’
Prospero recognising Miranda’s naivety Act 1 Scene 2
‘Foolish wench, / To th’most of men this is a Caliban/ and they to him are angels’
Prospero threatening Ferdinand about taking Miranda’s virginity before marriage
‘No sweet aspersion shall the heavens let fall/ To make this contract grow; but barren hate’
Miranda as a Christ-like figure, showing Prospero how to believe in good and grace again Act 1 Scene 2
‘Oh a cherubin! Thou wast that did preserve me! Thou didst smile,/ infused with fortitude from heaven’
Act 1 Scene 2 Ferdinand on Miranda as a Virgin
‘If a virgin, /And your affection not gone forth, I’ll make you/ The queen of Naples’
Caliban colonialism
‘A plague upon the tyrant that I serve!’ Act 2 Scene 2
Address terms Prospero uses towards Caliban
‘Hag seed’ ‘demi devil’ ‘poisonous slave’
Prospero cruelty to Ariel
‘Thou liest, malignant thing!’
Sebastian Act 2 Scene 1 on benefits of Claribel’s marriage
‘‘Twas a seeet marriage, and we prosper well in our return’
Alonso grief for Ferdinand
‘So is the dear’s o’th’loss’
(The heaviest loss is mine also)
Power of Sycorax, detested by Prospero act 5 scene 1
‘His mother was a witch, and one so strong/ That could control the moon’
Caliban violent plans to kill Prospero Act 3 Scene 2
‘I’ll yield him thee asleep,/ Where thou mayst knock a nail into his head’
Alonso repenting during harpy scene
Repetition of ‘monstrous’ - describing harpy’s visually shocking form, and horror at behaviour from 12 years before
Antonio and Sebastian not repenting during harpy scene
‘I’ll fight their legions o’er’ - ‘draw’ their ‘swords’ in stage directions, then both exit
Courtiers cleansed after descent into water during tempest
• Ariel describes their fabrics to be ‘fresher than before’ in Act 1 Scene 2
• Gonzalo Act 2 Scene 1 ‘our garments’ are ‘new-dyed than stained with salt water’
Antonio and Sebastian ridiculing Gonzalo on being cleansed of sin Act 2 Scene 1
Gonzalo - ‘our garments’ are ‘new-dyed than stained with salt water’
Antonio says he ‘lies’ Antonio agrees
Alchemical change in Ariel’s song Act 1 Scene 2
His ‘bones are coral made’
‘Those are pearls that were his eyes’
‘Doth offer a sea change into something rich and strange’
Prospero’s return to humanity, conflict between higher and lower self (linking to Richard Martin)
Sees himself in binaries ‘reason’ and ‘fury’ ‘virtue and vengeance’
Ariel as an ‘embodiment of Prospero’s higher impulses’
• ‘if you now beheld them, your affections would become tender’
Caliban as an embodiment of Prospero’s primitive desires
E.g vengeance plot wants Stephano to ‘knock a nail into his head’
Shakespeare strictly observing Aristotle’s unity of time act 1 scene 2
Prospero asks Ariel ‘what is the time’ , concluding it is ‘at least two glasses’ - therefore time must be ‘spent most previously’ - needs to conform to time the play is performed in
Prospero’s urgency as a director Act 1 Scene 2
Explaining to Miranda ‘The hour’s now come; the very minute bids thee open thine ear’ - urgency, necessity for audience to hear exposition also
Prospero’s ominous psychological menotrome end of Act 4 scene 1 monologue
‘A turn or two I’ll walk to still my beating mind’ - still under time pressure to resolve the play
Urgency of dealing with comedic subplot Act 4 Scene 1
‘The minute of their plot/ is almost come’
Beautiful nature of Ariel’s song Act 5 scene 1 - fantastical, freedom, entertainment for audience
‘Cowslip’s bell’ ‘bat’s back’ ‘blossom’
Beautiful imagery of masque
‘Nymphs’ ‘green land’ ‘brooks’ ‘niads’
Metatheatrical masque
Masque is an enaction of Prospero’s ‘present fancies’ as pagan gods
Ferdinand: ‘This is a most majestic vision, and harmonious charmingly’
Theatre only a spectacle to distract from reality
Act 4 scene 1 ‘Like this insubstantial pageant faded/ Leave not a rack behind’
act 5 scene - ‘The charm dissolves apace/ And as the morning steals upon the night/ melting into the darkness’
Prospero conducting the storm to commence the action Act 1 scene 2
‘Hast thou,spirit, perform’d to the point the tempest that I bade thee?’
Ariel used as a device by Prospero to bring his enemies to repent
Ariel as a ‘harpy’ - ‘You are three men of sin’ ‘I have made you mad’
Ariel used by Prospero to resolve the narrative
• Ariel repairs the ship ‘right and yare and bravely rigg’d’
• Takes place behind the scenes to bring the action to close in enough time - aside Ariel to Prospero ‘Sir, all this service/ Have I done since I went’
• reflects workings of playwrights behind the scenes
End of narrative, release of magic
Act 5 scene 1 end ‘My Ariel, chick, that is thy charge’
Key Gonzalo quote transformation Act 2 Scene 1
believes after the ‘tempest the courtiers’ ‘garments’ are rather ‘new-dyed than stained with salt water’
Key quotes from Gonzalo’s utopia speech
- ‘riches, poverty/ And use of service none’
- ‘I would with such perfection govern, sir,/ T’excel the golden age’
- ‘nature should bring forth/ Of it own kind all kind of foison, all abundance/ To feed my innocent people’
Antonio and sebastian mocking Gonzalo’s utopia
(in prose compared to blank verse)
- Sebastian interrupts ‘Yet he would be king on’t’
- Antonio - ‘The latter end of his commonwealth forgets the beginning’
- ‘Save his majesty!’
- ‘Long live Gonzalo!’
Prospero praising Gonzalo’s morality
‘Holy Gonzalo, honourable man’
Gonzalo on redemption/transformation Act 5 Scene 1
‘Was Milan thrust from Milan that his issue/ Should become kings of Naples?’
