Tempest Quotes Flashcards
(146 cards)
1.1 what is this scene meant to be like
realistic
1.1 Boatswain
“you mar our labour…To cabin; silence! Trouble us not”
Gonzalo: “remember whom thou hast aboard”
B: “None that I love more than myself…out of our way, I say!”
1.1 Antonio to the Boatswain
“We are less afraid to be drowned than thou art”
1.1 Antonio, uncaring, brave
“Let’s all sink wi’ th’ king”
1.2 Miranda status
has been a spectator like the audience
1.2 Miranda’s suffering
“O, I have suffer’d with those that I saw suffer”
1.2 what does Miranda think was in the vessel
“a brave vessel–who had, no doubt, some noble creature in her” (kings etc but they are all evil)
1.2 Miranda would have saved them if she had been
“Had I been any god of power”
1.2 Why did Prospero do it
“in care of thee, of thee, my dear one, thee, my daughter”
1.2 What does Miranda first ask Prospero
“If by your art, my dearest father, you have put the wild waters in this roar, allay them.”
1.2 When does Prospero become human
“pluck my magic garments from me…lie there my art”
1.2 Prospero description of his ultimate power
“I have with such provision in mine art
So safely order’d that there is no soul,
No, not so much perdition as an hair
Betid any creature in the vessel Which thou heard’st cry, which thou saw’st sink. Sit
down,
(merges two statements + a command, does not finish his first statement with “hurt” but instead finds a new way)
(JEsus assured his disciples that no hair would perish x3, Prospero has assumed the providential role of god. At this moment necessary)
1.2 Prospero asks what Miranda sees in the past
he is startled that she “four or five women once that tended me?”
“what seest thou else in the dark backward abyss of time?”
1.2 Prosper describes Miranda’s mother
“Thy mother was a piece of virtue”
faithful
her only real quality
legitimacy
virtue is a woman’s only importance. This is why she couldn’t have anything to do with Caliban
The image is the most important thing.
difficult to prove women are virtuous, he doesn’t really know
1.2 Miranda’s melodramatic response
“O, the heavens!” x2
1.2 Prospero demands attention
I pray thee mark me Dost thou attend me? thou attend'st not! I pray thee mark me Dost thou hear? -at the beginning and end of every bit -the attention he himself must give to combatting the existence of evil
1.2 prospero’s focus on family
“My brother, and thy uncle, call’d Antonio”
“I lov’d”
“brother” x7
“my false brother”
“tell me if this might be a brother”
STRUGGLES TO UNDERSTAND HOW EVIL CAN BE EMBEDIED IN THE CLOSEST OF ALL RELATIONSHIPS
1.2 Prospero’s skill in the liberal arts
“without parallel; those being all my study”
1.2 Abandons his tasks
“The government I cast upon my brother, and to my state grew stranger” “rapt in secret studies” “dedicated to closeness and the bettering of my mind”
1.2 What did Antonio do to Prospero’s subjects
“new created the creatures that were mine, I say: or chang’d ‘em or else new form’s ‘em”
(elisions become frequent)
(Antonio has usurped the role of God)
1.2 comparison to ivy and tree
“The ivy which had his my princely trunk, and suck’d my verdure out on’t”
(Misapplied metaphor. Ivy does not suck out the sap, irrational attitude to Antonio. His fear of being overwhelmed by evil, not in possession of his own feelings”
1.2 Prospero describes his trust as
“my trust…no limit, a confidence sans bound”
1.2 Antonio’s actions
“of temporal royalties royalties HE thinks me now incapable” (present tense)
(Prospero never blames himself, was he incapable)
1.2 Why the people did not destroy Prospero
Dear, they durst not, So dear the love my people bore me”