| “The government I cast upon my brother/ And to my state grew stranger, being transported/ And rapt in secret studies.” | PROSEPERO, gave his brother power so he could study his magic more |
| “Your tale, sir, would cure deafness” | MIRANDA, its an interesting story |
| “All hail great master! Grave sir, hail! I come/ To answer they best pleasure. Be’t to fly,/ To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride/ on the curled clouds, to they strong bidding task/ Ariel and all his quality.” | ARIEL, I will do whatever you want master with my power |
| “Pardon, master./ I will be correspondent to command/ And do my spiriting gently.” | ARIEL, I will do what you want Prosperso (because he is scared Prospero will put in back in a tree) |
| “You taught me language, and my profit on ‘t/ Is I know how to curse, The red plague rid you/ For learning me your language!” | CALIBAN, Miranda taught him the nobility language because that is what she had learned |
| “My language! Heavens!/ I am the best of them taht speak this speech,/ Were I but where ’tis spoken. | FERDINAND, they speak the same language |
| “Soft, sir, one word more/ They are both in either’s powers. But this/ swift business/ I must uneasy make, lest too light winning Make the prize light. | PROSPERO, good they fell in love, but he is going to say he does’t want them to be together so she wants in even more |
| “Besesch you, sir, be merry. you have cause/ so have we all of joy, for our escape/ is much beyond our loss.” | GONZALO, tries to comfort Alonso |
| “Sir you may thank yourself for this great loss/ That would not bless our Europe with your daughter,/ But rather loser her to and African” | SEBASTIAN, Is your (Alsonso) fault that Ferdinand died |
| “I’ th’ commonwealth I would by contraries/ execute all things, for no kind of traffic/ would i admit; no name of magistrate;/ Letters should not be known; riches, poverty,/ And use of service, none; contract, succession,/ bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none;/ no use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil;/ no occupation; all men idle, all/ and women too, but innocent and pure’/ no sovereignty” | GONZALO, describes how life would be if her were king, utopia world |
| “My strong imagination sees a crown/ Dropping upon thy head.” | ANTONIO, I see you (Sebastian) becoming king |
| “What stuff is this? How say you?/ tis true my brother’s daughter’s queen of Tunis,/ So is she heir of Naples, ‘twixt which regions/ there is some space.” | SEBASTIAN, yes my brother’s daughter is queen in a far away place |
| “The case, dear friend/ shall be my precedent; as thou got’st Milan,/ I’ll come by Naples. Draw thy sword. One stroke/ shall free thee from the tribute which thou payest/ And I the king shall love thee.” | SEBASTIAN, I will kill my brother with your example, now lets do it |
| “Alas, the storm is come again. My best/ way is to creep under his gaberdine. There is no/ other shelter hereabout. Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. I will here shroud till dregs of the storm be past.” | TRINCULO, Thinks Caliban is dead so he crawls under the cape to protect himself. When things are bad you will take help from anyone |
| “I’ll swear upon that bottle to be thy true subject, for the liquor is not earthly” | CALIBAN, I swear on this wine to serve you, you must be a god because your liquor is so good |
| “No precious creature,/ i had rather crack my sinews, break my back,/ Than you should such dishonor undergo/ While I sit lazy by.” | FERDINAND, I would rather break my back than have you do my work for me |
| “Pore worm, thou art infected/ This visitation shows it.” | PROSPERO, Ferdinand is love sic |
| “I beyond all limit of what else i’ th’ world,/ Do love, prize, honor you.” | FERDINAND, I love you so much |
| “I am your wife if you will marry me/ If not, I’ll die your maid, to be your fellow/ You may deny me, but I’ll be your servant/ Whether you will or no.” | MIRANDA, If you won’t marry me then I will be your maid and follow you forever |
| “I’ th’ afternoon to sleep, There thou mayst brain him, / Having first seized his books, or with a log/ Batter his skull, or paunch him with a stake,/ Or cut his weasand with thy knife.” | CALIBAN, plan to kill Prospero, make sure to first get his magic books they batter his skull |
| “Be not afeard. The isle is full of noises,/ sounds and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not./ Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments/ Will hum about mine ears, and sometimes voices/ That, if I then had waked after long sleep,/ will make me sleep again; and then, in dreaming,/ The clouds methought would open, and show riches/ Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked/ I cried to dream again.” | CALIBAN, he really does love the island sometimes |
| “therefor my son i’ th’ ooze is bedded, and/ I’ll seek him deeper than e’er plummet sounded,/ And with him there lie mudded.” | ALONSO, He is going to be with his son again because he is going to drown himself |
| “We are such stuff/ as dreams are made on, and our little life/ Is rounded with a sleep.” | PROSPERO, Our life is a dream that goes away so quickly and on either side of our life is death |
| “So I charmed their ears/ That, calf-like, they my lowing followed through/ Toothed briers, sharp furzes, pricking gorse, and thorns,/ Which entered their frail shins. At last them/ I’ th’ filthy-mantled pool beyond your cell,/ there dancing up to th’ chins, that the foul lake/ O’ erstunk their feet.” | ARIEL, charmed their ears to follow him, and led them through thorns and a bog |
| “o King Stephano, O/ peer, O worthy Stephano, look what a wardrobe/ here is for thee! | TRINCULO, shows Stephano the clothes Prospero has put out to distract them |
| “I will have none on ‘t. We shall lose our time/ And all be turned to barnacles or to apes/ With foreheads villainous low” | CALIBAN, if we don’t hurry we will get caught (voice of reason) |
| “Your charm so strongly works them/ That if you now beheld them, your affections/ would become tender.” | ARIEL, If you (Prospero) could see them now you would feel bad for them (The king and his crew) |
| “But this rough magic I here abjure” | PROSPERO, I’m giving up this powerful magic |
| “O good Gonzalo/ My true preserver and a loyal sir/ To him thou follow’st, I will pay thy graces/ Home, both in word and deed” | PROSPERO, I will pay you back for being so good to me |
| “I here could pluck his Highness’ frown upon you/ and justify you traitors. At this time/ I will tell no tales.” | PROSPERO, they are traitors and he could tell the king but will just hold it over his head so he won’t do anything wrong again |
| “For you, most wicked sir, whom to call brother/ Would even infect my mouth, I do forgive/ thy rankest fault, all of them, and require/ My dukedom of thee, which preforce I know/ Thou must restore.” | PROSPERO, to Antonio, to call you brother infects my mouth but I will forgive you too |
| “Have lost my daughter” | PROSPERO, she has gotten married |
| “O wonder!/ How many goodly creatures are there here!/ How beauteous mankind is! O, brave new world/ That has such people in ‘t!” | MIRANDA, this world that I have never known has such great people in it, I love it |
| “Let us not burden our remembrances with/ A heaviness that’s gone.” | PROSPERO, just forget about it |
| “Was Milan thrust from Milan, that his issue/ Should become kings of Naples? O, rejoice/ Beyond a common joy, and set it down/ with gold on lasting pillars; in one voyage/ Did Claribel her husband find at Tunis,/ And Ferdinand, her brother, found a wife/ Where he himself was lost Prospero his dukedom/ In a poor isle; and all of us ourselvs/ When no man was his own.” | GONZALO, 1. Was the duke of Milan kicked out so his kids could become heirs of King of Naples 2. Claribel found a husband 3. Ferdinand found a wife 4. Prospero found his dukedom on an island 5. And all of us found ourselves when we were lost (when Prospero put a spell on them) |
| “We were dead of sleep/ And how, we know not all clapped under/ Hatches” | BOATSWAIN, were trapped under the boat the whole time |
| “Two of these fellows you/ Must known and own. this thing of darkness I/ Acknowledge mine.” | PROSPERO, talking about Caliban, Stephano, and Trinculo |
| “Ay, that i will, and I’ll be wise hereafter/ And seek for grace. what a thrice-double ass/ Was I to take this drunkard for a god,/ And worship this dull fool!” | CALIBAN, he learned something from his mistakes |
| “Now my charms are all o’erthrown, And what strength I have ‘s mine own, Which is most faint.” | PROSPERO-EPILOGUE, I have given up all my magic now |
| “Since I have my dukedom got And pardoned the deciever, dwell In this bare island by your spell, But release me from my bands With the help of your good hands” | PROSPERO-EPILOGUE, Don’t make me stay here on this island release me by clapping |
The Tempest Quotes
July 27, 2019