Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Tempest themes quotes
- Illusions and deception
- The Tempest itself
- "Not a soul but felt a fever of the mad...Not a hair
perish'd. On their sustaining garments not a
blemish."- Ariel
- "Your charms so strongly
works 'em that if you now
behold them, your affection
would become tender."- Ariel
- Links to Theatre
- Ariel= Actor
- "Hast thou performed the
tempest I bade thee?"-
Prospero
- "Bravely the figure of this
Harpy hast thou performed,
my Ariel."-Prospero
- "In air he lives, from airs he
derives his being, in air he acts."-
St Coleridge
- Prospero= Director or Shakespeare
- "Prospero's intent is on controlling
everything and everyone else."-
Graham Bradshaw
- "Prospero stage
manages the action
to regain power." Neil
Bowman
- "My high charms work, and these my
enemies, are all knit up in their
distractions."
- Like Shakespeare
distracts his audience
with his 'art' of writing.
- "I'll to my book, for... must I
perform much business
appertaining."- end of act 5
- Men vs Monsters
- Caliban
- "Thou earth, thou speak"
- "A devil, a born devil, who's
nature nurture cannot stick"
- "Bash his head in,
paunch him with a
steak."
- Is Caliban as
monsterous though as
the men?
- Be not afeard. The isle is full of noises, sweet
airs that give delight and hurt not...that when I
wak'd I cried to dream again."
- "A product of natural lust, his
language is as hobgoblin as his
person. In all things he is
distinguished from other mortals."-
John Dryden
- The Kings men- "Noble"
- "O wonder! How many
goodly creatures are
there here!"- Miranda
- Naïve and has no idea
- Antonio plots to kill King with Sebastian
- "Th' occasion speaks thee, and
my strong imagination sees a
crown dropping upon thy head."
- Women
- Sycorax
- Miranda
- Independant
- "Oh father make not too rash a trial on him for he is gentle."
- "Miranda takes his orders at face value and disobeys them anyway."- Mellissa E Sanchez
- "I am your wife, if you will marry me, if not I'll die your maid."
- Controlled by male figures
- "Thou art inclined to sleep...I know
thou cans't choose"- Prospero
- "Miranda is what she is because
she has been his pupil"- J.M
Murray
- "Tell you piteous heart to be
collected."- Prospero
- "Possess all the delicacy of
innocence."- St Coleridge
- Nature vs Nurture
- Caliban
- "I took pains to teach you language
yet...you choose to violate the honour
of my child"- Prospero
- "You taught me language
and my profit on't is that I
know how to curse"-
Caliban
- Confinement and Freedom
- Ariel
- "My brave spirit!
- "I shall miss thee, but thou
shalt have freedom."- Prospero
- Let me remind thee what thou
hast performed, whish is not
yet performed me."- Prospero
- Caliban
- "Abhorred slave"
- "I am subject to a tyrant, a
sorcerer that by his cunning hath
cheated me of the isle."
- "I must obey. His
art is of such
power"
- "I'll show thee every fertile inch o'th island- I will
kiss thy foot. I prithee my God." Caliban to
Stephano
- "How fine my master is!
I am afraid he will
chastise me."
- Ferdinand
- "Follow me- Speak not
for him he is a traitor."
Prospero
- "The Tempest has been seen as a play
about power, perhaps it should be
regarded as a play about the illusion of
freedom."- David Lindley
- Compassion and Forgivness
- Caliban and Repentance
- "I will be wise hereafter and seek
for grace. What a thrice double
ass I was to take this drunkard for
a lord."
- Prospero and his family
- "For you, most wicked sir, whom to call
brother would infect my mouth, I do
forgive thy rankest fault."
- "I seek him deeper that e'er
plummet rounded, and with
him there lie mudded."
Alonso about Ferdinand
- Viewed as a renaissance magnus
- Art and magic
- Propero's art creates the play
- "If by your art...you have put the wild
waters in this roar, away then"-
Miranda
- "Pluck my magic art from me...so lie there
my art"- Prospero
- "The most blasphemous play
Shakespeare ever wrote...it is about
a man who is allowed to play God
and who doesn't just dabble with
craft but actually performs it." Peter
Hall
- "We are such stuff that dreams
are made on, and our little life is
rounded with a sleep."- Prospero
- Cleansing process
- "Their understanding begins to
swell that now lies foul and
muddy"- Prospero
- "Interestingly in alchemy a
tempest is the term for shifting
out impurities"- Mark Hebron
- Gonzalo and Common wealth
- "All things in common nature
should produce without sweat
and endeavour."
- Marxist
- "i'th' commonwealth
I would...execute all
things."