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What is the preliminary event? The events that take place before the action of the play that is directly related to the play What is the initial incident? The event that gets the story going What is the rising action?…

England of the early 1600s had undergone a radical change on monarch and was involved in ambitious ventures of discovery and colonial expansion. The new century brought challenges to the Elizabethan world view inherited from the Middle Ages, and this…

How was Jacobean’s society’s hierarchy reinforced? The Great Chain of Being What was TGCoB? Divinely ordained hierarchical structure of society. God sits at the top. But… Renaissance ideas began to reject TGCoB, calling for personal independence Who was King? James…

Beginning:Enter FERDINAND, bearing a logEnter MIRANDA; and PROSPERO at a distance, unseen alas now pray you work not so hard I would the lightning had burnt up those logs that you are enjoin’d to pile my father is hard at…

Rex Gibson (Maiden) Stereotypical maiden of romance Rex Gibson (Aggressive) Shakespeare complicates her character Rex Gibson (Role) Miranda’s role seems to be that of dutiful daughter Sofia Valdivieso Main role is to obey her father Mike Brett Miranda’s apparent freedom…

Blasphemous Adj, impiously irreverent: profane Insolent Adj, insultingly contemptuous in speech or conduct: overbearing Perfidious (perfidy) Adj, the quality or state of being faithless or disloyal treachery Fortitude Noun, strength of mind that allows a person to encounter or bear…

How did Prospero and Miranda end up on the island years before the present action of the play? Prospero was exiled from Italy by his brother, the Duke of Milan because “(Prospero’s) state grew stranger, being transported and rapt in…

A5 S1 “your affections would become tender”/ “tears run down his beard like winters drops from eaves of reeds” Ariel appealing to Prospero’s emotion – talking of Gonzalo – a dear friend of Prospero. Genuine emotion A5 S1 “Mind would…

Which of the lords expresses the belief that the island is a good place to be? Gonzalo Who doesn’t fall asleep when Ariel enters playing “solemn music?” Sebastian and Antonio What do Sebastian and Antonio plot while the others sleep?…

Prospero as authoritarian over Miranda Obey and be attentive Prospero controlling Miranda Thou art inclined to sleep Prospero constructing M +F’s relationship It goes on I see / As my soul prompts it Prospero treating Caliban like an animal And…