Power Flashcards
“Do you not hear him?…
“Do you not hear him? You mat out labour- keep your cabins”
Act 1 Scene 1
- Either his whistle of stage or Barton suggests it’s the sound of the storm, the little pause is them acknowledging the storm as the master, all powerful, nature
“What cares these…”
“What cares these roarers for the name of the king? To cabin. Silence!”
Roarers- the waves, but carry a subsidiary association with disorderly people- Metaphorical link between the chaos of nature and the upsetting of social hierarchy.
“We spilt…”
“We spilt, we spilt!- Farewell, my wife and children!”
“If by your art…”
“If by your art, my dearest father, you have put the wild waters in this roar, allay them”
- Discover Prospero has magic- powerful
- Miranda is not afraid to question her father
“With King of Naples…”
Usurp= To take someone’s power without their consent
“With King of Naples… subject his coronet to his crown”
- Antonio owes Alonso a debt
- Alonso betrayed Prospero
Prospero has hundreds of lines in Act 1 Scene 2 - dialogue shows he has more control/ power than Miranda
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“Here cease more…”
“Here cease more questions. Thou art inclined to sleep”
Act 1 Scene 2
“I come to answer thy best…”
“I come to answer thy best pleasure; be’t to fly, to swim, to dive into the fire, to ride on the curled clouds”
-Supernatural, powerful
