This islands mine, by Sycorax my mother, Which thou tak’st from me | Caliban |
‘thy vile race… deservedly confined into this rock’ | Prospero |
but would give a piece of silver | Trinculo |
makes this place paradise | Ferdinand |
‘O King Stephano… look what a wardrobe here is for thee!’ | Trinculo |
‘oh brave new world’ | Miranda |
And in these fits I leave thee, whilst I visit young Ferdinand’ | Prospero (Epic Theatre) |
‘the great globe itself shall dissolve’ | Prospero- creation is fleeting |
‘with the help of your good hands”let your indulgence set me free’ | Prospero=Shakespeare |
‘noise of thunder and lightning’ | … |
‘bless this twain, that they may prosperous be!’ | Wedding masque |
Banquet masque | ‘you are three men of sin”Now I will believe that there are unicorns’ |
‘the isle is full of noises, sounds and sweet airs’ | … |
enter Ariel, invisible to others, playing and singing’fly…swim…dive..ride’ | … |
Contrast Gonzalo and Sebatian | GONZALO dedication v ‘lets take leave of him’ ‘joy; for our escape’ v ‘I have no hope he is undrowned’ |
dramatic irony – Ferdinand | lets make further search for my poor son- Alonso’When did you lose your daughter?-AIn this last tempest’ – P (must suffer to redeem) |
Antonio and Seb plotting | ‘we heard a hollow burst of bellowing’ |
‘thou shalt have cramps, side stitches… thou shall be pinched’ | Prospero |
‘Exactly performed; but there’s more work’ | Prospero (to Ariel) |
‘false brother… evil nature… falsehood… trust… sinner”rotten carcass of a butt’ | Prospero (anger) |
PLAY IS A JOURNEY; PROSPERO – REVENGE TO REDEMPTION, LOSES POWER (MORE ROUNDED) | ‘but this rough magic, I here abjure’ |
‘flout em and scout em and scout em and flout em’Oh King Stephano, thy grace shall have it!’ | comedy! Stephano and Trinculo |
‘look, he’s winding up the watch of wit’ | Sebastian (about Gonzalo) |
‘thou liest’ | Ariel-power |
‘thou did seek to violate the honour of my child’ | Prospero (to Caliban) |
‘my strong imagination sees a crown dropping upon thy head’ | Antonio (dropping=sin) |
‘Thats a brave god and bears celestial liquour, I will kneel to him’ | Caliban |
‘we’ll visit Caliban, my slave”Slave! Caliban!’thou poisonous slave, got by the devil’ | Prospero |
‘I must obey, his art is of such power”burden of wood”here you sty me’ | Caliban |
‘I’ll kiss thy foot. I’ll swear myself thy subject’ | Caliban |
‘bearing a log’- Ferdinand- LIKE CALIBAN | … |
‘you may deny me, but I’ll be your servant’ | Miranda (to Ferdinand) |
‘my liberty… remember i have done thee worthy service”All hail, great master”Pardon, master’ | ARIEL! |
‘Doust thou forget from what a torment I did find thee?’ | Prospero |
‘you taught me language… i know how to curse’ | Caliban |
‘he does make our fire, fetch our wood’ | Caliban |
‘Servant-monster, drink to me!’ | Stephano (ironic as he is slave to bottle) |
‘being capable of only ill!’ | Miranda (about Caliban) |
‘a plague upon the tyrant I serve’ | Caliban |
‘bogs, fens, flats, apes, adders, cloven tongues’ | Caliban |
‘here, kiss the book’ | Bottle! alcohol, sin |
‘nature should bring forth… all abundance to feed my people”here is everything advantageous to life’ | Gonzalo (Garden of Eden) |
‘When thou cam’st first, thou strok’st me… then i loved thee”I showed thee all the qualities of the island’ | Caliban |
‘a devil, a born devil, on whose nature nurture can never stick’ | Prosper |
Caliban as the noble savage? | … |
‘good wombs have born bad sons’ | … |
Masculinity | All main characters- male ‘she will become thy bed’ (Caliban to Stephano) ‘as my gift, and thine own acquisition worthily purchased’ (Prospero to Ferdinand about Miranda) |
Femininity | Miranda- naivety ‘a thing divine, for nothing natural I ever saw so noble”nothing ill can dwell in such a temple”oh brave new world’ |
‘Miranda sleeps’ | Prospero power |
‘i did say so, when I first raised the Tempest’ | Prospero (but Ariel did????) |
‘thou liest, malignant thing! … I will rend an oak and peg thee in’ | Prospero ( to Ariel) |
‘you bawling, blasphemous, uncharitable dog’ | Seb to boatswain (class divide) |
‘Caliban kneels’v ‘Lead Monster’ | Caliban enslaved x2 |
‘union of your bed with weeds so loathly that you shall hate it ‘ | Prospero warning F and M |
‘we split, we split, we split’ | unity of fear |
‘let us not burden our remembrance with a heaviness that’s gone’ | Prospero |
‘retire me to my Millaine’ | P |
Ferdinand over Miranda | ‘do love, prize, honour you”so perfect, and so peerless’ |
‘oh, a cherubin’ | Prospero about Miranda |
‘I will kiss thy foot’ | Caliban |
‘but are they, Ariel, safe?”promise you calm seas”our ship… is tight… and bravely rigged’ | Prospero |
‘a tempestual noise of thunder and lightning is heard’ | … |
‘the rare action is in virtue than in vengeance’ | Prospero |
‘My Ariel, be free and fare thou well”Do you love me master? .. Dearly, my delicate Ariel’ | Prospero |
Prospero and Gonzalo | ‘i bid a hearty welcome”charity… gentleness… loved… prize’ |
‘playing at chess’ | M and F, courtly love |
‘go, sirrah, to my cell’ | Prospero- mild punishment |
END OF PLAY- still: ‘beast Caliban’ ‘thing of darkness’ -Prospero | … |
‘we are such stuff as dreams are made of, and our little life is rounded with a sleep’ | Prospero- magic! inevitable end |
Education- gives Prospero power | ‘remember first to possess his books’ |
The Tempest
July 4, 2019