The Tempest Critics

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Barton

the storm contains no hint of the marvelous or extraordinary

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Barton

the normal social responses have been dislocated

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Coleridge

a lively commencement of the story

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Coleridge

never puts habitual scorn into the mouths of other than bad men

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Todd

Trinculo's role is combining with Stephano in providing comic releif

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Todd

Prospero takes pleasure in Ariel's successes

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Todd

Prospero controls the destiny of the other characters

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Todd

Only Caliban's body is enslaved

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Todd

Miranda's outward beauty is a reflection of her inner merit

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Todd

Alonso emerges from the experience as purified and repentant

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Todd

Stephano's murder plot is based on folly rather than evil

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Riga

Prospero can be viewed as a beneficent kindly figure

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Kozinsky

Prospero is a selfish and venegful tyrant

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Westlund

Prospero is a deeply subjective character

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O'Toole

Caliban's language is that of a slave who binds himself to his master

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Mason

Shakespeare is indicating alternatives to traditional power models

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Beck

Prospero is an all knowing character with the perfect plan in place

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Jaimeson

Areil and Caliban represent two sides of Prospero's perosnality

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Tanner

all the venom on Prospero's island is secreted by men

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Tanner

Miranda's pitty must be innate since their is no-one to teach it to her

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Tanner

The real monsters of the island are Sebastian and Antonio

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Adams

Stephano and Trinculo are comic and incompetent

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Garbar

A place where reality is transformed

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Chaudhury

Caliban appeals to Stephano to achieve his desired end

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Delvin

Caliban is master of the situation

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Haddon

Stephano is the real monster

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Moseley

[reference to the anti-masque] 'despite this harmony, there is still discord on the island

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Moseley

The purity of the masque juxtaposed with the impure conspiracy to seize power

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Moseley

Stephano and Trinculo are far more repulsive than Caliban

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Moseley

A masque is 'a means of saying the unsayable'

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Moseley

Prospero presents the idea of a Good Marriage'

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Moseley

It is an elaborate way for Prospero to pronounce his blessing on the couple

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Moseley

An example of how the play concerns itself with education

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Andrew green power

Prospero is the major source of power within the tempest

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Andrew green composer

He can be seen as the composer of the events of the play

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Andrew green magical

they find themsleves helpless in the face of his magical arts

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Andrew green orchestra

the mighty storm is thus a thunderously orchestrated work of art

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Andrew green sadistic

at times the music and sounds prospero invokes take on a sadistic quality

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Andrew green power struggle

ugly nature of power-struggle within politics

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Andrew green confusion

the strange power of music to control adds to the sense of mystery and confusion

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Andrew green melancholy

remains a figure of strange melancholy (prospero)

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42

Bradshaw transformation

the tempest is his story , his psychic journey of self-transformation

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43

Mcdonald

to listen to the tempest's language is to become deeply sceptical about the operation of all kinds of power - poetic. political and critical too

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Sir Peter hall

the most blasphemous play that shakespeare ever wrote...is about a man on an island who is allowed to play God and who doesn't just dabble in witchcraft, but actually performs it

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De Grazia

not only are their histories similar and their powers interchangeable but both sorceress and magician are driven by the same passion - anger

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