act 3 scene 1 Flashcards
‘and makes my…’
‘and makes my labours pleasures’
-juxtaposition
-because he is carrying wood it make him labour good but he is doing it for miranda
-‘my sweet mstress’
-talking to himself
-speaks in blank verse
[enter miranda ….
[enter miranda, and prospero, {following at a distance }]
-voyaristc
-controlling and manipulative, OR Caring and protective father
‘precious…’
‘precious creature’
-ferdinand calls miranda that
poor worm..’
‘poor worm tho art infected;’
PROSPERO
-metaphor of love as a disease
-‘worm’ fatherly affection
-prospero is cynical about love
o, my father…’
‘o my father, I have broken your hest to say so.’
MIRANDA
-disobediant
-power of name
‘so perfect and…’
‘so perfect and so peerless’
FERDINAND
-perfect because she is kept away from the world
-believes he deserves perfection
-unrealostic
-plosive alliteration
-she is kept ion her childlike innocent state, obsession with innocence and purity
‘I do not know one of…’
‘I do not know /one of my sex’
MIRANDA
-emphasises her innocent view of the world
‘but my modesty…’
‘but my modesty / the jewel in my dower’
MIRANDA
-her virginity is her price
-metaphor
‘but I prattle..’
‘but I prattle/ something too wildly and my father precepts / I therein do forget’
MIRANDA
-she has spoken too much
-she is obedient in her disobedience
‘for your sake/ I am this….’
‘for your sale / I am this patient log man’
FERDINAND
-lowering himself out of his love for her
‘fair encounter..’
‘fair encounter / of two most rare affections.’
PRSOPRO
-says this [aside] so has just watched the whole conversation
-is he happy with it our of pure happiness or because his plan is going his own way???????
-Machievelan?
‘I am your wife..’
‘I am your wife, if you will marry me:/ if not I’ll die your maid[….] I’ll be your servant’
-MIRANDA
-proposing
-unaware of social constructs
-if he won’t marry her she will be his slave, representative of the slave/ master relationship taught from prospero
-ferdinand {kneeling] agrees to the proposal
