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the tempest revision
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- 1Act 1 scene 2 - you taught me language, and my profit on’t Is I know how to curse. The red plague rid you For learning me your language!Prospero has cared and helped caliban until he raped miranda therefore this quote shows that caliban is ungrateful for the help he received but this could also show how caliban feels about how prospero has treated him.
- 2There be some sports are painful, and their labour Delight in them sets off. Some kinds of baseness Are nobly undergone, and most poor matters Point to rich ends. This my mean task Would be as heavy to me as odious, but The mistress which I serve quickens what’s dead And makes my labours pleasures.contradicting himself alot because he loves miranda therefore shows his confusion or it could be a spell. He is so in love it makes himself say stupid things.
- 3[I weep] at mine unworthiness, that dare not offer What I desire to give, and much less take What I shall die to want. But this is trifling, And all the more it seeks to hide itself The bigger bulk it shows. Hence, bashful cunning, And prompt me, plain and holy innocence. I am your wife, if you will marry me. If not, I’ll die your maid. To be your fellow You may deny me, but I’ll be your servant Whether you will or noMiranda seems like she has just suddenly grown up. Alot of sexual inneundo in this quote - would do anything for him . 'bashful cunning' shows her embarrassment.
- 4Be not afeard. The isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices That, if I then had waked after long sleep Will make me sleep again; and then in dreaming The clouds methought would open and show riches Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked I cried to dream againIn this speech shakespeare has gone back to poetry to show his undying love for this island and that he is a native and has a close connection with it, he fells at home with it.
- 5Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air; And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve; And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.Very famous speech, play coming to an end shows shakespeares final good bye. 'old brain is troubled' shows signs of weakness. Uses theaterical terms explores the idea that shakespeare is talking.
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