TEMPEST/HAG-SEED

P1 my brave spirit! who was so firm, so constant that this coil/ would not infect his reason

prosperos metatheatrical orchestration of ariel through his psychological manipulation. characterises his egocentric dictatorship in a quintessential depiction of a higher-status male within the Jacobean era.

P1 he does our fire/ fetch in our wood and serves in offices that profit

futher the visceral imagery, pertains to a master slave dialetic and colonist imprisonment complex that objectively commodifies calibans hereditary claim to land in a fractured economy.

P1 for yet eye supper time must i perform

the perpetual nature of such imprisonment is evident through the motif of performance. exposing prosperos intrinsic inability to supersede his status of great chain of being. the false and transient nature of his dominon gained through corrupt mimesis of god as divine being.

P1 my high charms work and those, mine enemies

prosperos pursuit of diabolic manipulation in the high modality metaphor. marks his zenith of fragmentation with psychological discordance removing him from neccessary unification from historical congruence. impeding his ability to reconcile his social status to mirror the tragric form.

P2 instead he found himself gravitating to childrens stories

intertexuality. protrays felix seeking solitude in illusions, guided by his psychological projection of miranda.

P2 break out of your cell. you need a real world connection

in emulating ‘the tempest’ sense of confinement through the imperative and authorial intrusion. atwood conveys felix’s divergence from psychological unification and consequent individualism, perpetuating social isolation.

P2 the cloak of his defeat, the dead husk of his drowned self

unlike prospero, felix’s fragmented psyche possesses a post-modern relativist understanding exposing to pedagogical interactions. which pertains to a mutable identity and performance as a means of self-actualisation.

P2 my island domain. my place of exile. my penance. my theatre.

his advances felix’s erikson progression, facilitated through his civic responsibility to educate the imprisoned.which elucidates metatheatre as a space for psychological dynamism.

P3 the rarer action is in virtue, than in vengeance

caliban and mirandas agency is denied. synthesises the binary between renaissance humanism and christian providentialism in his rejection of machevallian retributive justice

P3 i’ll kiss thy foot, ill swear myself thy subject

calibans exploitation of prospero’s demand for his slavery in a superficial subversion of colonialist power structures. ultimately impedes his authentic empowerment and individual autonomy.

P3 my ariel, be free and fare thou well

possessive pronoun. exposes the superficial nature of ariels emancipation→ intrinsic corruption and rigidity of master-slave dialetics.

P3 my ariel, be free, fare thou well

possessive pronoun. exposes the superficial nature of ariels emanticaption due to the intrinsic corruption and master slave dialetics

P3 let your indulgence set me free

the final epilogue, the imperative. elucidates prospero’s self-condemnation informed by jacobean morally absolute values. forgiveness induces psychological liberation but is unable to provide freedom.

P4 its our play, does he believe this? yes, no, not really

felix’s oscillation between directive roles and equal power dynamics in the anthypophora. employs an indeterminate binaries of hypophora in a truncated syntax to manifest felixs relativist apprehension.

P4: but once you’ve climbed a ladder, what use is it

stratification symbolism, critiques a hierachal chain of being ‘the tempest’ to propose how notions of ascension are arbitary and ultimately ephemeral.

P4 handing over the keys

felix embodies foucaldaition ideas of discursive power, synecdoche for the illusive nature of metatheratre, transforming art into fluid space, restorative justice.

p4 to the elements be free

direct allusion to the tempest. atwood endorses post-freudian ideas of a re-inventing and mutable psyche to elucidate the ultimate freedom.