Critics

Question 1

Barton - The storm contains no hint.

Answer 1

The storm contains no hint of the marvellous or extraordinary

Question 2

Barton - The normal Social Responses.

Answer 2

The normal social responses have been dislocated

Question 3

Coleridge - A Lively ____________ of the ______

Answer 3

A lively commencement of the story

Question 4

Coleridge - Never puts habitual scorn in the ________ of other than ____ ___

Answer 4

Never puts habitual scorn in the mouths of other than bad men

Question 5

Todd - Trinculo and Stephano’s role

Answer 5

Trinculo’s role is combining with Stephano in providing comic relief

Question 6

Todd - Ariel’s successes

Answer 6

Prospero takes pleasure in Ariel’s successes

Question 7

Todd - Destiny

Answer 7

Prospero controls the destiny of the other characters

Question 8

Todd - Body, not mind

Answer 8

Only Caliban’s body is enslaved

Question 9

Todd - Miranda’s outward beauty

Answer 9

Miranda’s outward beauty is a reflection of her inner merit

Question 10

Todd - Purified and repentent

Answer 10

Alonso emerges from the experience as purified and repentent

Question 11

Todd - Based on folly

Answer 11

Stephano’s murder plot is based on folly rather than evil

Question 12

Riga - Beneficent kindly figure

Answer 12

Prospero can be viewed as a beneficent kindly figure

Question 13

Kozinsky - Tyrant

Answer 13

Prospero is a selfish and vengeful tyrant

Question 14

Westlund - Deeply subjective

Answer 14

Prospero is a deeply subjective character

Question 15

O’Toole - Caliban’s language

Answer 15

Caliban’s language is that of a slave who binds himself to his master

Question 16

Mason - Traditional power models

Answer 16

Shakespeare is indicating alternatives to traditional power models

Question 17

Beck - The perfect plan

Answer 17

Prospero is an all knowing character with the perfect plan in place

Question 18

Jaimeson - Two sides

Answer 18

Ariel and Caliban represent two sides of Prospero’s personality

Question 19

Tanner - Venom

Answer 19

All the venom on Prospero’s island is secreted by men

Question 20

Tanner - Miranda’s pity

Answer 20

Miranda’s pity must be innate as there is no-one to teach it to her

Question 21

Tanner - The real monsters

Answer 21

The real monsters of the island are Sebastian and Antonio

Question 22

Adams - Comic and incompetent

Answer 22

Stephano and Trinculo are comic and incompetent

Question 23

Garbar - Reality

Answer 23

A place where reality is transformed

Question 24

Chaudhury - His Desired End

Answer 24

Caliban appeals to Stephano to achieve his desired end

Question 25

Delvin - Master

Answer 25

Caliban is master of the situation

Question 26

Haddon - Funny monster

Answer 26

Stephano is the real monster

Question 27

Moseley - Discord (mod)

Answer 27

[With reference to the masque celebration] - Despite this harmony, there is still discord on the island

Question 28

Moseley - Juxtaposition

Answer 28

The purity of the masque juxtaposed with the impure conspiracy to seize power

Question 29

Moseley - Far more repulsive are we

Answer 29

Stephano and Trinculo are far more repulsive than Caliban

Question 30

Moseley - Saying the unsayable

Answer 30

A masque is a means of saying the unsayable

Question 31

Moseley - A good marriage

Answer 31

Prospero presents the idea of a good marriage

Question 32

Moseley - Pronounce his blessing

Answer 32

It is an elaborate way to pronounce his blessing on the couple

Question 33

Moseley - Education

Answer 33

An example of how the play concerns itself with education

Question 34

Andrew Green - Major source of power

Answer 34

Prospero is the major source of power within the Tempest

Question 35

Andrew Green - Composer of the events

Answer 35

He [Prospero] can be seen as the composer of the events of the play

Question 36

Andrew Green - Magical arts

Answer 36

They find themselves helpless in the face of his magical arts

Question 37

Andrew Green - Thunderously orchestrated

Answer 37

The mighty storm is thus a thunderously orchestrated work of art

Question 38

Andrew Green - A sadistic quality

Answer 38

At times the music and sounds Prospero invokes takes on a sadistic quality

Question 39

Andrew Green - Power-Struggle

Answer 39

Ugly nature of power-struggle within politics

Question 40

Andrew Green - Mystery and Confusion

Answer 40

The strange power of music to control adds to the sense of mystery and confusion

Question 41

Andrew Green - Strange Melancholy

Answer 41

Prospero remains a figure of strange melancholy

Question 42

Bradshaw - Psychic journey

Answer 42

The tempest is his [Prospero’s] story, his psychic journey of self-transformation

Question 43

Mcdonald - All kinds power, P, P & C

Answer 43

to listen to the Tempests language is to become deeply skeptical about the operation of all kinds of power - poetic, political and critical too

Question 44

Sir Peter Hall - Most blasphemous play. Playing God and performing witchcraft.

Answer 44

The most blasphemous play that Shakespeare ever wrote… Is about a man on an island who is allowed to play God and who doesn’t just dabble in witchcraft, but actually performs it

Question 45

De Grazia - Sorceress and Magician are driven by the same passion.

Answer 45

Not only are their histories similar and their powers interchangeable but both sorceress and magician are driven by the same passion - anger