Textual Conversations

“Shalt be free as mountain winds” but “do all points of my command.”

• Simile to emphasise confining nature

• Juxtaposing statement

“She can’t stray far. Something constrains her.”

• Anaphora metonymically emphasises the imprisonment of Miranda through grief

“Hag-Seed, hence! Fetch us in fuel, and be quick.”

• Fricative alliteration to emphasise harshness

• Derogatory language

“‘To the elements be free,’ he says to her. And, finally, she is.”

• Intertextual reference to The Tempest indicates resonance and freeing of Miranda’s memory

“Plague them all, even to roaring.”

• Metaphorically underscores Prospero’s use of those around him

• Aphorism highlights his selfishness and vengeance

“Suddenly revenge is so close, he can actually taste it. It tastes like steak- rare.”

• Gustatory imagery accentuates the human experience of vengeance

“The rarer value is in virtue than in vengeance.”

• Aphorism

• Fricative alliteration to depict the protagonist’s moral journey from revenge to mercy

“Felix has strewn forgiveness around while listening to the clenching of Tony’s teeth, which has been a great pleasure.”

• Post modern tone and auditory imagery accentuates Felix as merciful and yet still vengeful, not dissimilair to Prospero, but enlivened through a contemporary context