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Feminism: Hag-seed, Quotes? “He was never ready when a slice of filth came out of her child-like mouth” and “Challenge the audience by showing them well-known characters in surprising and possibly disagreeable guises?” Feminism: The Tempest, Quotes? “My foot my…

Colonisation – Gonzalo Their manners are more gentle kind than of our human generation. Colonisation – Caliban Teach me how to name the bigger light. Colonisation – Trinculo There would this monster make a man. Love – Miranda There’s nothing…

Prospero Play’s protagonist, father to Miranda. Twelve years before the beginning of the play, he was the Duke of Milan. His brother, Antonio, and the King of Naples, Alonso, worked together to usurp Prospero and forced him to flee on…

“I might call him a thing divine for nothing natural I ever saw so noble” Evidence of Miranda falling in love with Ferdinand, supporting the idea that The Tempest is a Comedy. “I’ll make you Queen of Naples” Ferdinand suggesting…

How did Ferdinand win back Miranda? He proved his love for her through service to Prospero How does Prosepero try to catch Caliban, Stephano, and Trinculo? He sends Ariel running after them. What does Prospero make Ferdinand promise before accepting…

In Act II, Scene I, Ariel lulls Gonzalo, Adrian and Alonso to sleep. Why not Antonio and Sebastian? It is Prospero’s intention for Antonio and Sebastian to remain awake, because he anticipated that their true, sinister natures would show. When…

Boatswain – “you may our labour: keep your/cabins: you do assist the storm” Power/Authority.Although Boatswain is supposed to lack power/authority over Antonio and Sebastian because of his low status,in contrast to their higher status; Shakespeare suggest that Boatswains is actually…

God and Humanity James Russell Lowell saw the play as “an example of how a great poet should write allegory”. Does Prospero represent God? It is he who control the action on the stage – he wields tremendous power as…

Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile,/ Hath not old custom made this life more sweet/ Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods/ More free from peril than the envious court?/ Here feel we not the penalty of…

Daughter of Duke Frederick Celia Brother paid for his education Jacques Usurped his brother’s position in the court Duke Frederick A nobleman beats him in a wrestling match Charles He inherits a large sum of his father’s estate and refuses…