Prosperos power over ariel- sets him free | It was mine art when i arrived that made gape the pine and let thee out |
Sean McEvoy | He who ultimately persuades Prospero that the rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance |
Prosperos behaviour over ariel like sycorax | If thou more murmrst/ will rend an oak and peg thee in his knotty entrails till/ thou hast howled away twelve winters |
Prosperos power of the oak, stronger than gods power? | Rifted joves stout oak/with his own bolt |
Thomas McFarland 1972 | Prospero by his ability to control the elements… Is invested with the power of a god… The perfect island does exist and God… Exists there also |
Ariels compassion towards gonzalo and humanity | “Tears run down his beard/ like winters drops/ from eaves of reeds” |
Prospero admits he should look upon his enemies with more mercy | “The rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance” |
Prospero convinced by ariels humanity-power over prospero | Dost thou think so spirit? |
Ariel Prospero’s time keeper | “Tis past the sixth hour my lord, by which time my lord, you said our work should cease””Past the mid season” |
Neil Bowen suggests power of boatswain over monarchy on ship | “Hence…to cabin. Silence.” “What cares these rosters for the name of the King?” |
Neil Bowen | Suggests that monarchy is not natural or God given… an unnatural construct |
Caliban’s naivety and will to serve Stefano? | “I’ll show thee every inch o the island/ and I will kiss thy foot. I prithee be my god” |
Stefanos ‘gift’ of language to Caliban? | “Open your mouth;here is that which will give language to you” |
Calibans beauty in language | “Be not afeard for the isle is full of noises/ sands and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not/ sometimes a thousand twanging instruments will hum about mine ears” |
Dixon hunt 1968 | Proves himself continually more intelligent, more sensitive than they |
Prospero shuns Caliban and claims him a devil whom he cannot reform? | “A devil, a born devil on whose nature/ nurture can never stick” |
Prospero’s use of Caliban for menial tasks, regards him a slave | “He does make our fire/ fetch our wood and serves our offices/ that profit us” |
Prospero’s menial address of caliban | Thou earth/ thou speak |
Calibans complaints of Prospero’s tyranny | I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer/ that by his cunning hath cheated me of the island |
Prospero’s monstrous and psychological punishment of caliban | Thou shalt be pinchd as thick as honeycomb each pinch more stinging than the bees that made em |
Caliban reminisces to Prospero’s orignal good treatment of him | Teach me how/ to name the bigger light and how the less, that burnd by day and night; then I lovd thee |
Trevor r Griffiths 1994 | The slave needs the master as much as the master needs the slave |
Calibans childlike threats against Prospero | “With a log/ batter his skull or paunch him with a stake/ or cut his wezand with thy knife |
Robert Wilson 1988 | Caliban embodies that part of human nature that remains and must remain purely animal, sensual and distinctive |
John Dryden 1697 | His person as monstrous as he is the product of unnatural lust; and his language is as hobgoblin as his person |
Calibans intricate knowledge of the island | “Show thee a jays nest and instruct thee how/ to snare the nimblest marmoset |
Calibans remorse over Prospero’s stealing of the island from him | The islands mine by sycorax command which thou takst from me |
Cicely Berry | Caliban is the other and Prospero has power over him through language |
Prospero’s God like art | Graves at thy command have wake their sleepers |
Prospero Questions his justice in vengeance against his enemies | Thou with their high wrongs I am struck to the quick/ yet with my noblr reason against my fury do I take part |
Antonios lack of conscience | But for your conscience ? Ay sir where lies that? |
Prospero’s humanity and recognition of his own weakness in art | “We are such stuff dream are made of” baseless fabric |
Redemption of Caliban | “Be wise hereafter and seek for grave |
Caliban’s thrust of language in asyndetic listing | All the charms of sycorax’ toads, beetles, bats light on you |
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July 16, 2019