The Tempest- love and marriage quotes

Question 1

Act 1, scene 2: ‘it carries…

Answer 1

…a brave form’- Miranda about Ferdinand love at first sight

Question 2

Act 1, scene 2: ‘Most sure, the goddess…

Answer 2

…on whom these airs attend’- Ferdinand about Miranda

Question 3

Act 1, scene 2: ‘O you wonder!-…

Answer 3

…If you be maid or no?’- Ferdinand to Miranda

Question 4

Act 1, scene 2: ‘At the first sight…

Answer 4

…they have changed eyes’- Prospero Aside

Question 5

Act 1, scene 2: ‘O if a virgin…

Answer 5

…And your affection not gone forth, I’ll make you The Queen of Naples’- Ferdinand to Miranda

Question 6

Act 1, scene 2: ‘too light winning…

Answer 6

…make the prize light.’- Prospero to Ferdinand about Miranda

Question 7

Act 1, scene 2: ‘There’s nothing ill…

Answer 7

…can dwell in such a temple.’- Miranda to Prospero about Ferdinand

Question 8

Act 3, scene 1: ‘The mistress which i serve quickens whats dead,…

Answer 8

…and makes my labour pleasures’- Ferdinand about his labour to earn Miranda from Prospero

Question 9

Act 3, scene 1: ‘If you’ll sit down…

Answer 9

…I’ll bear your logs the while’- Miranda to Ferdinand

Question 10

Act 3, scene 1: ‘Poor worm,…

Answer 10

…thou art infected’- Prospero about Miranda

Question 11

Act 3, scene 1: ‘noble mistress’
‘What…

Answer 11

…is your name?’
- Ferdinand could be seen as romantic but actually just doesn’t even know Miranda’s name despite trying to marry her already

Question 12

Act 4, scene 1: ‘Enter Prospero, Ferdinand and Miranda’

Answer 12

-Miranda does not speak at all in this scene despite her marriage being the focus, shows patriarchal sale nature of marriage in jacobean era

Question 13

Act 1, Scene 2: ‘This music… Allaying…

Answer 13

…their fury and my passion’
‘it hath drawn me’- Ferdinand about Ariel’s music
-shows how orchestrated the love at first sight was

Question 14

Act 4 scene 1: Prospero summons his spirits to pretend to be roman gods in a performance for Ferdinand and Miranda’s wedding, which ‘gods’ appeared
what was the significance of this scene in context

Answer 14

-‘gods’ involved: iris, juno, ceres
-performance was actually especially theatrical as celebration for King James’ daughter getting married
- great example for spectacle too
-performed innew blackfriar’s theatre which was an ‘enclosed, candlelit space’- gordon mulligan