The Tempest masterdoc

Question 1

Alonso first line

Answer 1

“Where’s the master? Play the men.”

Question 2

Gonzalo first line

Answer 2

“Good, yet remember whom thou hast aboard.”

Question 3

Miranda first line

Answer 3

“If by your art, my dear father, you have / Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them.”

Question 4

Prospero first line

Answer 4

“Be collected; / No more amazement. Tell your piteous heart / There’s no harm done.”

Question 5

How does Miranda describe The Tempest? (1.2)

Answer 5

‘a brave vessel / Who had, no doubt, some noble creature in her, / Dashed all to pieces!’

she asked him to calm the storm, but Prospero reassures her by saying “There’s no harm done”

Question 6

Quotes from Prospero’s explanation of the back story (how he and Miranda got to the island)

Answer 6

“Thy father was the Duke of Milan, and / A prince of power”
until his brother Antonio, “thy false uncle” betrayed him.
Antonio, with the help of Alonso (king of Naples), had Prospero and Miranda captured at night
“my false brother / Awaked an evil nature”
BROTHERLY TREACHERY

Question 7

Prospero’s love for miranda (1.2)

Answer 7

“Thou wast that did preserve me”

Question 7

“Thy mother was…”

Answer 7

“are you not my father?”
…“Thy mother was a piece of virtue, and / She said thou wast my daughter”

Question 8

Ariel’s first line

Answer 8

“All hail, great master, grave sir, hail!”

Question 9

Ariel first speech key moments

Answer 9

“To answer thy best pleasure”
“dive into the fire”
“Ariel, and all his quality”

Question 9

Ariel first speech key moments

Answer 9

“To answer thy best pleasure”
“dive into the fire”
“Ariel, and all his quality”

Question 10

Ariel first speech key moments (pt. 2)

Answer 10

“I flamed amazement. Sometime I’d divide / and burn in many places”

Question 11

Enter MARINERS, wet

Answer 11

Realism

Question 12

Ariel’s first demand for freedom

Answer 12

My liberty

Question 13

Prospero’s retelling of Ariel’s imprisonment

Answer 13

the “damned witch Sycorax”
“blue eyed hag”
He then threatens Ariel, “I will rend an oak / and peg thee in his knotty entrails”

Question 14

Prospero and Miranda say they will visit Caliban, the slave “who never / …”

Answer 14

“who never / yields us kind answer”
note semantic value of “kind” in Shakespeare’s time, as something which is also unnatural.
also calls him a “tortoise”

Question 15

Elemental tension between Caliban and Ariel

Answer 15

Caliban is associated with the Earth, Ariel with the air, Prospero with fire.

Question 16

Caliban’s first line (when he is visible on stage)

Answer 16

“As wicked dew e’er my mother brushed.”
he wishes the south western window which are so hit it “blister you all o’er!”

Question 17

CALIBAN’s claim of the island

Answer 17

“This island’s mine, by Sycorax”

Question 18

Caliban’s rape of Miranda

Answer 18

“I had peopled else / This isle with Calibans”

Question 19

“And make a ______ of him”

Answer 19

Vassal

Question 20

Ferdinand first line

Answer 20

“Where should this music be? I’th’air, or th’earth?”
very interesting in terms of nature, and the semantic quality of nature.

Question 21

“Delicate Ariel..”

Answer 21

“Delicate Ariel, / I’ll set thee free for this!”

Question 22

FERDINAND: “O, if a ______”

Answer 22

Virgin (chastity)

Question 23

what are some major themes?

Answer 23

The play draws constant connection between Prospero’s art and theatrical illusion

Freedom and imprisonment
Perspectives on colonisation (somewhat linked to the previous)
Chastity

Question 24

Conflict between masters and slaves is a central theme of The Tempest. How does the exchange between the Boatswain (pronounced “bozun”-the crew member in charge of a ship’s sails, rigging, and deck crew) and Gonzalo and Sebastian illustrate this conflict?

Question 25

What do Miranda’s first lines suggest about her character?

Question 26

Summarize the “backstory” revealed in the conversation between Prospero and Miranda.

Question 27

What do we learn about Gonzalo’s past involvement with Prospero?

Question 28

We meet Ariel, a magical spirit who works under Prospero’s command, and who controlled the storm that took place in Scene 1. Summarize the history between Prospero and Ariel.

Question 29

A complex history exists between Caliban and his human keepers, Prospero and Miranda. Describe this history as Caliban tells it, from their first interactions through the present.

Question 30

How does Ariel facilitate the meeting of Miranda and Ferdinand?

Question 31

It appears that Prospero wants his daughter and Ferdinand to fall in love. Other than the fact that he’s a dad with a teenage daughter, why does Prospero cast a spell over Ferdinand to render him powerless and then imprison him?

Question 32

After the other men fall asleep, Antonio makes a surprising suggestion to Sebastian. What is this suggestion, and what is Antonio’s rationale for it? (II)

Question 33

What does Caliban state in his opening speech in this scene? (II)

Question 34

Why does Caliban respond to stephano and trinculo with such reverence? (II)

Question 35

What is trinculo’s assessment of Caliban / reference to the “Harlequin”?

Question 36

Shakespeare’s use of language in Caliban’s speech (III)

Question 37

Perspective on Prospero’s final words