Tempest quotes

1.1 Boatswain tells Gonzalo “What cares these..

Roarers for the name of king?”

1.2 when telling Miranda about the past, Prospero refers to himself as

“The prime Duke”

1.2 Prospero states that he gave power to Antonio as he himself was

“Rapt in secret studies”

1.2 Prospero calls his court officials

"Creatures”

1.2 Prospero refers to himself as a ________ when recounting Antonio’s treachery

“Poor man”

1.2 Prospero says that Gonzalo ensured that before he was exiled that Prospero had with him his books, Prospero says apropos his books

“I prized above my dukedom”

1.2 Prospero is Miranda’s

“Schoolmaster”

1.2 Ariel refers to P as

“My noble master”

1.2 Prospero refers to Caliban’s mother as

“That damned witch Sycorax”

1.2 Subdued Ariel shows submission to Prospero by saying

“I thank thee master” for freeing him from the tree

1.2 P calls Caliban

“Abhorred slave”

Prospero also calls Caliban later

“Poisonous slave”

1.2 Miranda tells Caliban that before she taught him to speak English he was merely

“Brutish”

Caliban’s profit on learning English

“You taught me language, and my profit on’t/Is, I know how to curse”

1.2 Miranda when first seeing Ferdinand calls him

“A thing divine” and “for nothing natural I never saw so noble”

1.2 Ferdinand calls Miranda

A “goddess”

1.2 Ferdinand asks Miranda if she

“Be a maid or no”

1.2 Miranda about having humble affections

“I have no ambition to see a goodlier man”

2.1 Sébastien says of Claribel’s marriage to the king of Tunis (Alonso)

“Twas a sweet marriage, and we prosper well in our return.” - sarcasm, this neatly wraps up with Gonzalo’s speech of marriage at end

2.1 Sébastien says that Alonso has.. about Claribel

“Loosed her to an African”

2.1 Gonzalo states that if he owned the island there would be

“No sovereignty” on it

What happens in act 2 scene 1? (What is the premise?)

Italian courtiers search for Ferdinand

2.1 Sébastien points out the flaws in Gonzalo’s idealistic vision and remarks that

“Yet he would be king on’t”

2.1 Sébastien complains to Antonio that

“I am standing water”

Antonio replies to Sebastien’s complaint with

“I’ll teach you how to flow” - persuading him to be more flexible in thinking about killing the king

Who meets who in Act 2 scene 2?

Caliban meets Stephano + Trinculo

2.2 When Stephano spies Caliban he states that he will be

“Present for any emperor”

2.2 Caliban says that Stephano is a

“Brave god” who “bears celestial liquor”

What happens in Act 3 scene 1? (Main thing?)

Ferdinand + Miranda declare their love

3.1 Miranda tells Ferdinand that she will give him her ____ which she calls____

“Modesty” Which she calls “the jewel in my dower”

3.1 when Prospero sees Ferdinand and Miranda pledging their love for each other he says

“Heavens rain grace/On that which breeds between ‘em”

Who are the three that get intoxicated, and in which scene?

In act 3 scene 2 Caliban, Stephano and Trinculo are intoxicated

3.2 Caliban tells Stephano and Trinculo that he is

“Subject to a tyrant,/A sorceror”

3.2 Caliban tells Stephano to

“First possess his books” - recognises P has no power without them

3.2 Caliban tells Stephano and Trinculo not to be

“Afeared/The isle is full of noises/Sounds and sweet airs that give delight and harm not” - speaks nobly

3.2 Stephano claims that when he rules the island

“I shall have my music for nothing” - irony/humour is drunk and interprets the music as a sign of good fortune, rather than a warning or trick - believes plan wil be successful + says when he is king he will have music and not pay for it

What happens in Act 3 scene 3?

Italian courtiers/banquet + Ariel as harpy

3.3 Gonzalo tells the courtiers that the spirits who bring on the banquet

“though they are of monstrous shape, yet note/Their manners are more gentle, kind than of/Our human generation” - Montaigne reference

3.3 Prospero agrees with Gonzalo and states

“Some of you there present/Are worse than devils”

3.3 Prospero is pleased that his enemies are under his power and states

“My high charms work”

What happens in the beginning of act 4 scene 1?

Prospero gives Miranda to Ferdinand

4.1 Prospero warns Ferdinand not to

take Miranda’s “virgin knot” before they are married

4.1 what does Prospero say when he passes on the ownership of Miranda to Ferdinand

Confirms that Miranda is now '“thine own” to Ferdinand

What happens in the middle of Act 4 scene 1?

Wedding masque

4.1 Ferdinand is in awe of the masque and states

“Let me live here ever!/So rare a wondered father and a wife (wise)/Makes this place a paradise”

4.1 Caliban is annoyed when Stephano and Trinculo become distracted by

Prospero’s “trumpets” and tells them “Let it alone, thou fool; it is but trash”

5.1 Ariel counsels Prospero that (time of Prospero’s epiphany)

“The rarer action is/In virtue than in vengeance” - few words that are religious in the play (virtue) - words from main character not couched in religion

The play is not a very secular one besides…

Gonzalo - almost a caricature of his

5.1 Prospero renounces his magical powers stating

“This rough magic/I here abjure”

5.1 when Miranda sees the courtiers she states

“How beautious mankind is”

5.1 After he is pardoned by Prospero, Caliban states

“I will be wise hereafter/And seek for grace”

Epilogue, Prospero states that his strength without his magic is

“Most faint”

Prospero requests at very end

“Let your indulgence set me free”

1.2 Ariel being servile to Prospero 2 quotes

1. “To thy strong bidding, task/Ariel and all his quality”

2. “What shall I do? Say what? What shall I do?”

Prospero after harpy scene to Ariel

“Of my instruction hast though nothing bated/In what thou hadst to say”

Prospero’s monthly reminder of saving Ariel

“It was mine art…that made gape/The pine and let thee out”

Prospero after Ariel nudges him to become more human

“Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling/Of their afflictions, and shall not myself/(One of their kind, that relish all as sharply,/Passion as they) be kindlier moved than thou art?”

Act 4 scene 1, Prospero about having everything in place

“At this hour/Lies at my mercy all mine enemies”

Act 4 scene 1 Caliban calls Trinculo a

“dull fool’”

Prospero (1.2) tells Ariel to “Lend thy hand,/..

And pluck my magic garment from me./So, lie there, my Art”

Prospero 5.1 changing costume

“I will discase me and myself present/As I was sometime Milan”

Trinculo speaking about possibility of an illusion in Act 5 scene 1

“If these be true spies which I wear on my head, here’s a goodly sight”

Miranda calls Caliban Act 1 scene 2

“Savage”

Antonio Act 2 scene 1 with being disillusioned says

“My strong imagination sees a crown/Dropping upon thy head” to Sébastien

Gonzalo 2.1 obsessed with clothing being… (2 quotes)

1. “Rather newly-dyed than stained with salt water”

2. “Methinks our garments are now as fresh as when we put them on first in Afric”

Antonio disillusioned 2.1 bragging

“Look how well my garments fit upon me,/Much feater than before”

Prospero telling Ariel to change costume 1.2

“Go make thyself like a nymph o the sea…. go take this shape/And hither come in’t”

Gonzalo talking back to the Boatswain

“Nay, good, be patient”

Boatswain’s response to Gonzalo saying he should “be patient”

“When the sea is. Hence! What cares these roarers for the name of King? To cabin. Silence! Trouble us not.”

Boatswain known ‘assist’ line

“You mar our labour - keep your cabins/You do assist the storm.”

Boatswain being sarcastic to Gonzalo - sea change, rebukes them

“If you can command these elements to silence, and work a peace of the present, we will not hand a rope no more - use your authority.”

Gonzalo feeling consoled by Boatswain’s presence

“I have great comfort from this fellow”.. “Methinks he hath no drowning mark upon him, his complexion is perfect gallows”

Gonzalo feeling consoled by Boatswain, addressing Fate

“Stand fast, good Fate, to his hanging; make the rope of his destiny our cable”

Sébastien to boatswain (think in difference to Gonzalo who prays for him and asks that fate be boatswain’s guide)

“A pox o’your throat, you bawling, blasphemous, uncharitable dog”

Gonzalo 5.1 happy ending exclamatory

“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”

In which scene does Caliban claim his island bc of genology + what does he say

1.2 “This island’s mine, by Sycorax, my mother”

Miranda upon seeing all the courtiers

“How beautious mankind is. O brave new world/That has such people in’t”

Prospero 1.2 explaining his past

“I thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated/To closeness and the bettering of my mind/With that which, but by being so retired,/O’er-rpized all popular rate..”

Ariel describing the storm he made for Prospero, and how everybody was thrown into a frenzy of madness

“Not a soul/But felt a fever of the mad and played/By some tricks of desperation.”

1.2 Ariel recounting that Ferdinand in tempest yelled

“Hell is empty,/And all the devils are here”

Ariel as harpy 3.3 opening line

“You are three men of sin, whom Destiny,/That hath to instrument this lower world

Ariel 3.3 as harpy says to Sébastien, Alonso + Antonio that the sea

“Hath caused to belch up you;”

Ariel 3.3 said that three men of sin are

“Most unfit to live” + deserve “ling’ring perdition”

Prospero 1.2 to Miranda with ‘frightful self-awareness’

“I know thou canst not choose”

Stage directions 1.2 Ferdinand is

“Charmed from moving” by Prospero being protective of Miranda

Ariel 1.2 being servile to Prospero

“I will be correspondent to command”

Prospero 1.2 saying that nobody in Milan wanted to rise up against him, bc his subjects were so (faithful of) + loving of him, and how the courtiers painted a different image of themselves to cover themselves up

“Dear, they durst not,/So dear the love my people bore me; nor set/A mark so bloody on the business; but/With colours fairer painted their foul ends.”

Prospero 1.2 says to both Ferdinand + Miranda, that if Ferdinand ‘break her virgin knot’ before marriage

“You shall hate it both”

4.1 Miranda commenting on her father’s anger

“never till this day/Saw I him touched with anger so distempered.”

Prospero 5.1 saying he will renounce his magic

“I’ll break my staff,/bury it certain fathoms in the earth,/And deeper than did ever plummet sound/I’ll drown my book”

5.1 Prospero forgiving Antonio

“For you, most wicked sir, whom to call brother/Would even infest my mouth, I do forgive/Thy rankest fault-all of them”

5.1 Sébastien does not have a reaction of repent but instead exclaims about Prospero after his aside to him + Antonio that

“The devil speaks in him!”

Prospero showing off his power/authority in 5.1 in an aside to Sébastien + Antonio, some would say even blackmailing them

“But you, my brace of lords,/were I so minded/I here could pluck his highness’ frown upon you/And justify your traitors. At this time/I will tell no tales.”

Prospero asking Alonso for his dukedom back

I “require/My dukedom of thee, which perforce I know/thou must restore”

Prospero 5.1 claims in regards to patience

“I have her sovereign aid,/And rest myself content” when Alonso says that he has run out of patience looking for Ferdinand and mourns him, thinking he is dead

Prospero 5.1 playing with Alonso about also losing Miranda

“for I/Have lost my daughter”

5.1 Alonso saying he wishes he could have died with his son because he feels so bad he will never see him again

“I wish/Myself muddled in that oozy bed/Where my son lies.”

5.1 What is a line that shows that the metaphor of the tempest is coming true?

Prospero is asked by Alonso where he lost his daughter, and he responds “In this last tempest.”

5.1 Prospero refers to Ariel + Caliban as his

“Few servants”

Prospero 1.2 to Ariel

“I’ll rack thee with old cramps,/Fill all thy bones with aches, make thee roar/That beasts shall tremble at thy din.”