| What cares these roarers for the name of the king? To cabin! Silence! Trouble us not. | Alonso etc experience a loss of power as the boatswain is giving them orders and insists that nature (or Prospero) doesnt care for their titles |
| DogCurWhoresonInsolent noisemaker | Antonio and Sebastian are very power hungry and are infuriated by the boatswains lack of respect |
| O I have suffered with those that I saw suffer | Miranda is a stereotypical female character; gentle, kind, empathetic |
| Lie there my art | Said when Prospero takes off his cloak to talk to Miranda; a symbol of illusion |
| Pluck my magic garment from me | Prosperos magic garment is a prop which makes prospero seem more powerful and magical, imperative pluck shows power over Miranda |
| Obey and be attentive | Prosperos power over Miranda |
| Secret studies | Wrong, should have been attending to his duties |
| Your take, sir, would cure deafness | Mirandas sarcasm or being attentive daughter |
| Good wombs have borne bad sons | Miranda suggests nurture rather than nature |
| Thou wast that did preserve me | Prospero reassures Miranda she was not trouble, good father |
| Great master | Ariel praises Prospero and flatters him in order to gain some power of Prospero and to be treated better |
| My brave spirit | Prospero is a good master to ariel |
| Is there more toil? | Ariel to Prospero about his freedom |
| Thy groans did make wolves howl | Prospero Reminds Ariel of his imprisonment to retain power |
| Poisonous slave | Caliban and Prospero have a very harmful relationship. Unlike Ariel, Prospero didn’t save Caliban, he just took his power |
| This islands mine | Caliban believes the island belongs to him |
| human care | Prospero believes he treated Caliban with human care and feels he has been nothing but kind to Caliban. This amplifies the betrayal felt by Prospero when Caliban tried to rape Miranda |
| O ho! Would’t had been done | Calibans anger is so great he is unrepentant for attempted rape – nature Vs nurture |
| Wouldst gabble like a thing most brutish | Miranda Viewpoints of coloniser and colonised; Prospero/Miranda feels as though Caliban owes him for trying to civilise him |
| You taught me language, and my profit on’t is, I know how to curse | Caliban feels as though the education given by Prospero has taken away his freedom and power |
| Ariel. invisible, playing and singing | Comforts Ferdinand with a song |
| Nothing ill can dwell in such a temple | Miranda about Ferdinand |
| My foot my tutor | Prospero mocking the idea that Miranda can tell him what to do |
| Weigh our sorrow with our comfort | Gonzalo attempts to comfort Alonzo by telling him to balance the bad luck of Ferdinand with the good luck of survival |
| Here is everything advantageous to life | Gonzalo is optimistic and positive about the island |
| Riches, poverty, and use of service, none | Gonzalo imagines a utopian society with no rich poor or slaves |
| My strong imagination sees a crown dropping upon thy head | Antonio tries to persuade Sebastian to kill alonso using an image |
| It is a sleepy language | Sebastian is at first against the idea of killing alonso |
| S) I am standing water A) I’ll teach you how to flow | I’m listening/you need to act Antonio trying to persuade Seb natural imagery shows natural evil |
| Where lies that (about his conscience) | Antonio has no conscience |
| Would this monster make a man | Trinculo talks about how caliban would make him money explorers often brought back inhabitants of lands and displayed them for money |
| Stephano: (drinks) | He’s very drunk wrong yet in a position of power |
| Do not torment me! | Callibans first response to unknown activity is that it is harmful; shows how he’s been mistreated |
| Moon-calf | Stephano about caliban monster/idiot |
| I’ll show thee every fertile inch o’th’island | Caliban repeats what he did to prospero and Miranda to stephano |
| A most ridiculous monster, to make a wonder of a poor drunkard | Caliban attempts to escape slavery by enslaving himself to someone else. Uses the same tactic as Antonio used to overthrow Prospero. Caliban is still naive and misled as he thinks Stephano is a God |
| Freedom | Caliban repetitively sings freedom ironic as he is not free just has a new master |
| Enter Ferdinand, bearing a log | Prospero makes Ferdinand carry out the same tasks as caliban |
| Makes my labours pleasures | Ferdinand is happy to do work for Miranda (contrasts caliban) |
| Enter Miranda, and Prospero (following at a distance) | Prospero is in control of their encounters much like everything else in the play |
| I am your wife, if you will marry me // I’ll bear your logs for a while | Unconventional woman; Miranda proposes to Ferdinand as well as offering to help with his work |
| Lord of the island | Stephano is drunk on alcohol and power. Comedic due to stupidity of the situation. Mocks power hungry people like Antonio |
| Paunch him with a stake | Calibans plans to kill Prospero are well thought out and detailed meaning he must have thought about it before, highlighting calibans hate for prospero |
| Stephano: [strikes Trinculo] | Slapstick comedy, Ariel is mimicking trinculos voice |
| This I will tell my master | Ariel plans to tell Prospero about calibans plot showing loyalty |
| The island is full of noises, sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not | Poetic language show Calibans love for the island and make it difficult for the reader to see Caliban as a savage |
| (The clouds) show riches | Caliban appreciates the beauty of nature |
| I cried to dream again | Caliban only finds Peace when he is asleep and dreaming about the island, sympathy for caliban |
| Thunder and lightning. Enter Ariel | Evokes fear in the king etc Prospero gains power over them through Ariel |
| You are three men of sin // nothing but hearts sorrow and a clear lie ensuing | Ariel reminds men of their wrongs and makes them feel powerless, only resentful living can save them |
| Gift // break her virgin-knot | Prospero describes Miranda as a gift to Ferdinand threatens so he doesn’t take her virginity before marriage |
| Do you love me master? No? // dearly, my delicate Ariel | Loving Relationship between Ariel and Prospero |
| Revels/actors/globe (like globe theatre) | Theatrical associations – as the actors have vanished so will everyone else |
| We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep // my old brain is troubled | Prospero reflects on his life and recognises his age and mortality. Many critics believe Shakespeare is referring to the impermanence of Shakespeare’s own works |
| A born devil, on whose nature nurture can never stick | Implies that Calibans bad actions are nature and cannot be changed |
| Do that good mischief which may make this island thine own for ever | Caliban attempts to refocus trinculo and Stephano in the murder of Prospero |
| Grind their joints with dry convulsions | Prospero is very angry at Calibans plan. Prospero may dislike Caliban more as he is never able to have complete control over him |
| Your affections would become tender | Ariels compassion seems to restore Prosperos humanity |
| The rarer action is in virtue, than in vengence | Forgiveness not revenge |
| Graves at my command have waked their sleepers | Black magic; is Prospero good or bad |
| I’ll drown my book | Books represent magic and power |
| Prospero traces out a circle on the stage | Prospero still has complete power, unity |
| Noble friend | Gonzalo is finally treated with the respect he deserves (by Prospero) |
| I do forgive thee, unnatural though thou art | Prospero chooses forgiveness over revenge |
| How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world that has such people in’t! | Miranda is still naive. She admires the men without knowing their corrupt natures (last lines) |
| Seb will money buy ’em // Ant no doubt marketable | Colonialism |
| This thing of darkness, I acknowledge mine | Prospero is either taking responsibility for Caliban or seeing him as property |
| What a thrice-double ass was I to take this drunkard for a god | Caliban recognises his misjudgement and the audience pity’s him (last lines) |
| But release me from my bands with the help of your good hands | Prospero asks the audience to set him free (with applause) links to Shakespeare’s life |
| A brave vessel, who had no doubt some noble creature in her | Miranda assumes that those inside the boat are good |
The Tempest – Quotes
July 13, 2019