The Tempest- Shakespeare Flashcards

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What does prospero call miranda which is an extended metaphor or religious symbol?

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Cherubin

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When was the tempest first preformed?

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1611, 2 years after England colonised Virginia in 1609

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Erin Yorke critic say about miranda?

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Although innocent and niave, miranda is no pawn in the hands of men… She still exerts her power

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What does Phillip Brooke say caliban represents?

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Caliban represents native Americans being negative to give support for colonisers

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Structurally what happens to miranda?

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Her lines and radical ideas get reduced as the play progresses and her relationship with Ferdinand does

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What is a masque typical of

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17th century theatre

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Prosperous lines to show masque shaped by his intent on abstenance

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Do not give dalliance, to much to the vein be more abstenious

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Caliban call impregnating miranda

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Thou didn’t prevent me, I had peopled this isle with calibans

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What is prospero likened to having with is a subversion of god

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Having ‘god like power’

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What kind of slave does miranda call caliban

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Abhorred

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Who was being colonised at the time Shakespeare wrote this

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America

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How did miranda propose

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I am your wife, if you’ll have me. Parrelell unconventional character

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Although queen Elizabeth was on the throne what was society still like

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Patrichial

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David daniell said

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First performance of the play was spectacular and masque like

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Caliban claim the island is…

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Mine by sycorax my mother

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Caliban is called abhorred slave what is Ariel?

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Servant

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Whose travel diaries did people believe inspired Shakespeare

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William strachey’s shipwreck of Bermuda

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Hazlitt said?

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Miranda is portrayed as a ‘goddess of the isle’

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David g.nuzmam said?

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The play is support of the Bermuda colonised project

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Audience were

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Highly religious

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Miranda offers to…

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Bear his logs

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Ceres is a symbol of…

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Agriculture and prosperity,

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Juno is a symbol of

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family love and harmony to come

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What is colonial exotic?

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Us and them
Binary opposites e.g prospero god like
Indigenous monstrous

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What does caliban think is a benefit of learning language

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You taught me language, and my profit on’t is, I know how to curse

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Prospero claims he has done a lot for miranda…

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I have done nothing but care for the

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What does miranda remember about her past

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Had I not once four or five women that tendered to me,suggesting she was higher rank in women’s hierarchy

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Miranda says about looking at caliban

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Tis a villain sir, I do not love to look on

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What does prospero call Ariel when wants to leave…

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You liest, you malignant thing, hast thou forgot the vile witch sycorax

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Ariel claims…

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He’ll is empty all the devils are here

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Miranda say about teaching caliban language

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I pitied the and too pains to make thee speak

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Ferdinand reply to proposal

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If a virgin… I shall make the queen of Naples

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Miranda defends her father

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My fathers of better nature than he appears sir

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Gonzalo tells Sebastian

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You rub the sore when you should bring the plaster

34
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What does Alonso say when he wakes up

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Why are you drawn? Wherefore this ghastly looking

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Miranda asked do you love me?

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Ferdinand, do love, prize, honour you

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Caliban gets called

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Servant monster 
 Brave monster
Monsieur monster
Ignorant monster
Deboned fish
Half fish, half monster
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Prospero says to Ferdinand

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Worthily purchased take my daughter

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Caliban says to Stephano and trinculo

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For aye, thy foot licker

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Prospero states about magic

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This rough magic I here abjure

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Miranda says about mankind

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How many goodly creatures, are there here

How beauteous is mankind

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Miranda’s function according to mills

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The stereotype of pure maternal white woman a important standard against indigenous creatures

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Cartelli says

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The partially victimised and silenced miranda

43
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Sachdev say…

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Sycorax operates on a symbolic level… Monstrous female character maintains Miranda’s character

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Francis A Yates say about reconciliation …

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Reconciliation though a younger generation

45
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Francis a Yates thinks prospero is based on

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John dee mathematician who learnt how to conjure spirits

46
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John bate thought

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Forces a person response, as has no focus

47
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David suchet thinks about casting caliban as many animals

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One overall feeling of being completely miscast

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Michel billington

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Deeply moving cry for forgiveness of the colonial past and appeal to spirit of truth and reconciliation

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Prospero says the will break and drown…

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I’ll break my staff and drown my books

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Stage directions so appears like god

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At a distance unseen

Invisible

51
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Prospero causing storm mimics…

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The great flood and leads to communal baptism

52
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Gonzalo says what is like lord prayer

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The wills above be done

Thy kingdom come
Thy will be done

53
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John Peter

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Prospero is a policital creature who has learnt form his own mistakes

54
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Charles spencer

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How the urge to power can turn a paradise into a hell