critics Flashcards
(17 cards)
Solomon “Prospero’s christ-like
realisation”
Fuchs “By placing New World colonialism at the centre of the play
it is a more relevant text for modern readers”
Brett “Miranda’s freedom is
entirely illusionary”
McEvoy’s “The play becomes anti-
colonist”
Brett “Miranda is a pawn in
a patriarchal society”
Kemble “Ariel is the agent of
reconciliation and redemption”
Riches “There seems no doubt that a vengeful desire to punish
prompts Prospero’s creation of the storm”
Riches “He is willing to manipulate even
his daughter Miranda”
Riches “Such honesty and self-realisation is more admirable than
the most awful magic”
Grindlay; Males with magic are a “thing of awe” but women seen as having
“dangerous empowerment”
Hughes “Island is used as a site upon which
a new world of possibility can be created”
Charry “The island is certainly the arena of the
power struggle between Prospero and his former enemies”
Greenblatt “The natural social order in Gonzalo’s speech is grossly at odds with
anything actually represented by Shakespeare’s ocean island”
Riches “In descending from omnipotence, Prospero
raises himself to genuine humanity”
Agar “Shakespeare suggests that as long as we thirst for power ourselves
utopia will always be out of reach”
Bowen “Shakespeare challenges us to consider what constitutes
good, responsible, wise leadership”
Bowen “Caliban’s ability to recognise the beauty of the island shows
a potentially civilised sensibility”
