The Tempest Quotes Flashcards
Revenge
1) “Remember first to posses his books: for without them he’s but a sot” - Caliban
2) “Do so and after two days I will discharge thee” - Prospero
3) “Noble Sebastian (…) I’ll teach you how to flow” - Antonio
Power and control
1) “I’ll kiss thy foot. I’ll swear myself thy subject” - Caliban
2) “I’ll break my staff, bury it” - Prospero
3) “He was indeed the Duke (…) hence his ambition growing” - Prospero
4) “Had I been any god of power, I would have sunk the sea within the earth” - Miranda
Ambition
1) “He was indeed the duke…hence his ambition growing” - Prospero
2) “Let me remember thee what thou hast promised, which is not yet performed” - Ariel
3) “You taught me language: and my profit on’t is, I know how to curse” - Caliban
Illusion
1) “I had forgot that foul conspiracy of the beast Caliban and his confederates against my life” - Prospero
2) “I might call him a thing divine” - Miranda
3) “Ay, that I will: and I’ll be wise hereafter and seek for grace” - Caliban
Betrayal
1) “In my false brother awakened an evil nature”
2) “Do so and after two days I will discharge thee” - Prospero
3) “This Islands mine by sycorax my mother, which this takest from me” - Caliban
Magic and Supernatural
1) “But this rough magic, I here adjure(…) I’ll break my staff, bury it” - Prospero
2) “you are three men of sin” - Ariel
3) “Beyind all limit of what else in the world I do love, prize and honour you” - Ferdinand
Love
1) “A thing divine” - Miranda
2) “Goddess” - Ferdinand
3) “Dous thou attend me” - Prospero
4) “O, I have suffered with those that I saw suffer” - Miranda
Justice
1) “Ay that I will; and I’ll be wise hereafter and seek for grace” - Caliban
2) “Do so and after two days I will discharge thee” - Prospero
3) “In my false brother awaken an evil nature” - Prospero
Otherness
1) “Be not afeard: the isle is full of noises, sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not” - Caliban
2) “Sometimes like apes, that mow and chatter at me, and after bite me” - Caliban
3) “My tricksy spirit” - Prospero
Loss and Recovery
1) “He was indeed the duke (…) hence his ambition growing” - Prospero
2) “Than you may call to comfort you for I have lost my daughter” - Prospero
3) “My liberty” - Caliban
Imprisonment and Freedom
1) “Let me remember what thou hast promised, which is not yet performed” - Ariel
2) “I would not wish any companion in the world but you” - Miranda
3) “I do love thee, prize and honour you” - Ferdinand
Prospero
1) “Thy poisonous slave, got by the devil himself” - Prospero
2) “I must uneasy make, lest too light winning make the prize light” - Prospero
3) “do I take part: the rarer actions is in the virtue than in vengeance” - Prospero
Caliban
1) “This Islands mine by Sycorax my mother, which thou takest from me” - Caliban
2) “Thou didn’t prevent me; I had peopled else this isle with Calibans” - Caliban
3) “I am subject to a tyrant” - Caliban
4) “Be not afeard: the isle is full of noises, sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not” - Caliban
Ariel
1) “You are three men of sin” - Ariel
2) “I thank thee, master (…) That’s my noble master” - Ariel
3) “Let me remember thee what thou hast promised, which is not yet performed” - Ariel
Gonzalo
1) “Here is everything advantageous to life” - Gonzalo
2) “Methinks our garments are now as fresh as when we out them on fist in Afric” - Gonzalo
3) “No occupation, all men idle, all and women too” - Gonzalo
