Act 3, Scene 1 152 Flashcards
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pp 153 notes.
Semantic field of work, Ferdinand plays into the courtly trope to prove to Miranda and Prospero,
Commodification of women.
Ferdinand pp 154.
“The mistress which i serve”- Critique of arranged marriage, reforms for women.
“My sweet mistress weeps when she sees me work”- emotionally charged driven women who conforms to stereotypes.
notes pp 155
Central scene of the play, shows a blossoming relation between Ferdinand/ Miranda.
Hazlet-‘The very purity of love’
Connotations of work/ brought to life by Miranda.
Prospero [at a distance, unseen]. pp 155.
Prospero wants to maniuplate from the sidelines, demonstrates flawed fatherhood, using Miranda as bait.
Dialogue between Ferd and Mir, pp 154.
“He’s safe for these three hours”- dramatic irony and a sense of rebellion.
Stichomythia used.
“I’ll bear your logs the while”- takes on a male role, sexual innuendo.
Ferd “Than you should such dishonour undergo”- chivarous notion.
Miranda pp 156
“As well as it does you, and I should do it”- proto-feminist.
Prospero [aside]- “Poor worm, thou art infected!”- Orchestration, Prospero’s cyical view of love as he introduces the semantics of disease.
Courtly notion, pp 156
Poetry of the lover, hyperbolic language.
Lusty Italian young man in contrast to Mir.- “For several virtues. Have I liked several women”- experienced.
Mir 158.
“my modesty (The jewel in my dower) I would not wish any companion in the world but you”- Prospero educated her on the importance of virginity, speaking like a genuine relationship.
“and my father’s precepts I therein do forget”- abandonned knowledge.
Possibility that Miranda is being xploited by Prospero- lack of wordly knowledge.
Parallell to Caliban’s trio.
Fer pp 158
“Do love, prize, honour you”- echo of the matrimonial vows.
Mir pp 160.
“I am your wife, If you will marry me; If not, I’ll die your maid”- emotionally driven and sexual innocence.
Gender subversion- she proposes to him. Polysemic.
Assimilated with his courtly/ sexual connotations
Prospero pp 162.
“but my rejoicing At nothing can be more”-tender.
“I’ll to my book… I perform much business appertaining”- flawed fatherhood, competing voices- he cannot be a father and politician- metatheatrical. Semantics of commodity. Prospero finishing the scene presents him as the director.
