The Tempest Quotes Flashcards
(14 cards)
Revenge Quote
Act 1, Scene 2, Line 178
(pg. 19)
“Bountiful fortune…”
“…bountiful Fortune… hath mine enemies brought to this shore… my zenith doth depend upon a most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not… my fortunes will ever after droop.”
Prison Motif Quote
Act 1, Scene 2, Line 19
(pg. 9)
“nought knowing…”
“…nought knowing of whence I am, nor that I am more better than Prospero, master of a full poor cell, and thy no greater father.”
Grief Prison Quote
Act 2, Scene 1, Line 187
(pg. 55)
“I wish mine eyes…”
“Alonso: …I wish mine eyes would with themselves shut up my thoughts…”
Magic and Control Quote
Epilogue, line 12-20
(pg. 145)
“Now I want spirits…”
“Now I want spirits to enforce, art to enchant, and my ending is despair, unless I be relieved by prayer… As you from crimes would pardoned be, let your indulgence set me free.”
Revenge Quote
Act 5, Scene 1, line 26-28
(pg. 127)
“Yet with my…”
“Yet with my nobler reason, ‘gainst my fury do I take part. The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance”
Nature vs Nurture Quote
Act 4, Scene I, line 188-191
(pg. 117)
“A devil…”
“A devil, a born devil, on whose nature nurture can never stick; on whom my pains humanely taken, all, all lost, quite lost…”
Usurpation Quote
Act 1 Scene 2
(pg. 13)
“Thy false uncle…”
[Prospero] “Thy false uncle… set all hearts i’th’state to what tune pleased his ear”
Usurpation Quote
Act 1 Scene 2
(pg. 15)
“He did believe…”
“He did believe he was indeed the duke…”
Usurpation Quote
Act I, Scene 2, line 342-343
(pg. 29)
“For I am all…”
[Caliban]“For I am all the subjects that you have, which first was mine own King”
Marginalisation Prison Quote
Act 1, Scene 2, line 320
(pg. 29)
“Thou poisonous slave…”
“[Prospero]: Thou poisonous slave, got by the devil himself…”
Marginalisation Prison Quote
Act 1, Scene 2, line 352
(pg. 31)
“Abhorred slave…”
“[Miranda]: Abhorred slave, which any imprint of goodness wilt not take…”
Nature vs Nurture Quote
Act 5, Scene 1, line 273
(pg. 141)
“This thing of darkness…”
“[Prospero]: This thing of darkness, I acknowledge mine.”
Nature vs Nurture Quote
Act 5, Scene 1, line 293
(pg. 143)
“I’ll be wise…”
“[Caliban]: I’ll be wise hereafter, and seek for grace.”
Theatre Motif Quote
“Our revels are now ended;…”
“Our revels now are ended; these our actors, as I foretold you, were all spirits, and are melted into air, into thin air… the great globe itself… shall dissolve, and like this insubstantial pageant faded leave not a rack behind.”
