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AOS Essay
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- 1"I'll manacle thy neck and feet together, sea water shalt thou drink. Follow"Paragraph One - Prospero's Change of Character by Language
Authoritarian, totalitarian, originally duke of Milan, attempts to re-discover power, imperialistic and magic for control
Tone, Structure, Truncated, Stagnated - 2"Now my charms are all o'erthrown" "What strength I have's mine own"Paragraph One - Prospero's Change of Character by Language
Virtue over vengeance, abandons external forces that deteriorated, stripped bare of magic and power, mercy of audience, no longer needs the aid of spirits
Raconteur, Resolved and Defeated Tone, Exuberant, Free-Flowing, Fluent, Graceful - 3"As you from crimes would pardon'd be, let your indulgence set me free" "Unless I be relieved by prayer, it assaults mercy itself, and frees all faults"Paragraph Two - Allusion to Religion, Its Control Over Discovery
Discovers that in freeing the enslaved, frees himself, religion frees him, EPILOGUE used to depict this anagnorisis
Religious Allusion, Word Choice 'Indulgence' = Catholic Church - 4"The mask was a thing on its own, behind which Jack his, liberated from shame" "Jack began to dance, a bloodthirsty snarling"Paragraph Two - Allusion to Religion, Its Control Over Discovery
Spirituality controls the boys, becomes a mocking parallel to society (microcosm), Garden Of Eden - their process of discovery destroys this place, Beelzebub = devil governs process of discovery
Mask is a spiritual element which controls them; Religious 'Rites' Parallel - 5"Simon had seen, the picture of a human at once heroic and sick"Paragraph Three - Discoveries Vary According To Context
Choice to accept/reject discoveries, he discovers out of curiosity that beast is within them, he though this would also free the boys
Oxymoronic, Allegory/Parallel to real world - He is actually seeing himself - 6"My profit on 't is, I know how to curse" "Fill all thy bones with aches, make thee roar"Paragraph Three - Discoveries Vary According To Context
Prospero thinks language is a gift, teaches Caliban thinking it would free him, although it enslaves him, reminds him of his difference to Miranda and Prospero, Character Arc Between P and C shows worldview .. Reflect's audience's own society
Prospero doesn't understand Caliban's rejection - dehumanises him, "roar" - 7"Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood! "Circle formation that turned into a horseshoe"Paragraph Four - Rejection of Knowledge and Language
Boys circled, chanted in cohesion = solidarity, animalistic, accept/reject knowledge, challenged original perceptions, lack of curiosity, necessity and wonder -- Reflected through cries to soldier (Link to Tempest epilogue) -- Discoveries lay dormant within them (concealed)
Repetition, Truncation, Stagnation, Emotive, Ironically proves Simon's point, 'horseshoe' = savagery - 8"A devil, born a devil, on whose nature nurture can never stick"Paragraph Four - Rejection of Knowledge and Language
Prospero educating island inhabitants as he sees fit, struck his own unforeseen discovery, he cannot civilise a savage and that HE IS THE SAVAGE himself -- Reflected through epilogue (link to LOTF cries to soldier) -- Discoveries lay dormant within them (concealed) - Both texts removed from their worlds, placed to new perspectives
Compares him to a devil, shows Prospero's perspective
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