The Tempest

The Tempest

1. Social Disruption

   • "A temptuous noise of thunder, and lightning heard"
   • "What care these roarers for name of King
   • "No kind of traffic... use of service none... all me idle, all"
     • Gonzalo's Ideal world
   • And look how well my garments sit upon me/Much feater than before"
   • "If it were a kibe/Twould put me to my slipper, but I feel not/This deity in my bosom"
   • "Here lies your brother/No better than they earth he lies upon"
   • "You are three men of sin"
   • "Are ministers of Fate"
   • "You three... did supplant good Prospero"
     • "Thee of thy son, Alonoso/They have bereft"

2. Colonialisation

   • "Caliban, my slave, who never yields us kind answer"
   • "Brave spirit"
     • "Thou liest, malignant thing"
   • "This islands mine, by Sycorax my mother/Which thou taks't from me"
   • "And then I loved you"
   • "My master
   • "Thou poisonous slave, got by the devil himself"
   • "You taught me language, and my profit on't/ Is I know how to curse"
   • "Yet I needs must curse"
   • "Adders, who with cloven tongues/do hiss me into madness"
   • "That's a brave god... I will kneel to him"
   • "Thou mayst brain him...batter his skull... cut his wezand with thy knife"
     • His treatment at the hands of Prospero under colonization has turned him viscious
     • "They all do hate him/As rootedly as I"
       • "Be not afeared... sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not"

3. Power

   • "Bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog"
   • "I'll rack thee with old cramps/Foll all thy bones with aches"
     • "I must obey; his art is of such power"
   • "My strong imagination sees a crown/ Dropping upon thy head"
   • "At this hour/Lies at my mercy all mine enemies"

4. Love

   • "I might call him/A thing divine"
   • "O you wonder"
   • "They have changed eyes"
     • Fallen in love
   • "Nothing ill can dwell in such a temple"
   • "My sweet mistress"
   • Many a lady/I have eyed with best regard"
     • "Nor have I seen/More that I may call men"
   • "So perfect and so peerless... of every creatures best"
   • "I am your wife if you will marry me/If not I'll die your maid"

5. New world vs Old World

   • "When the will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian"
   • Caliban speaks in poetry whereas Trinculo and Stephano speak in prose, suggesting he is more civilised than them
   • "Let it alone, thou fool, it is but trash"
   • "O King Stephano!"
   • "What do you mean/To dote thus on such luggage"

6. Nature Vs Nuture

   • "A devil, a born devil, on who nature/Nurture can never stick"

7. Reconciliation

   • "Your affections/Would become tender"
     • "And mine shall"
   • "But this rough magic/I here abjure"
   • "I do forgive thee/Unnatural though thou art"
   • "[He embraces Alonso]"
   • "I do forgive/Thy rankest fault"
   • "This thing of darkness, I/Acknowledge mine"