Tempest Flashcards
Prospero over Caliban (2)
- Thou most lying slave
- What I command, I’ll rack thee with old cramps
Prospero over Ariel
- “Pardon, master. I will be correspondent to command and do my spiriting gently”
- “Come away servant, come!”
Caliban > Stephano and Trinculo
- “I’ll swear upon that bottle to be thy true / subject, for the liquor is not earthly”
- “Possess his books; for without them he’s but a sot”
- “When Prospero is destroyed”
Boatswain shows control
“Silence! Trouble us not”
Antonio about Alonso’s murder
“By that destiny perform an act”
Miranda to Prospero about the tempest
If by your art, my dearest father, you have put the wild waters in this roar, allay them
Prospero not doing his duties
Me, poor man, my library
Was dukedom large enough
Caliban about being his own king
‘was mine own king’
Miranda when first sees Ferdinand
There’s nothing ill can dwell in such a temple
=> what people look like same how they are
Caliban about the music
sounds and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not
=> Caliban can be emphatic
Prospero says nurture will not fix Caliban
A devil, a born devil, on whose nature nurture can never stick
=> Prospero says that no education will fix Caliban
Prospero about enemies
At this hour / lies at my mercy all mine enemies
=> ‘mercy’ revenge or not
Miranda about mankind
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world that has such people in’t
=> naive and innocent
Caliban about grace
I’ll be wise hereafter
And seek for grace
=> manipulation or forgiveness
=> civil or colonialists
Prospero giving up magic
Now my charms are all o’erthrown, and what strength i have’s mine own, which is most faint.
