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Tempest Critics
Cards in this deck (12)
- 1Adams - on usurpationbetrayal "in the eyes of Shakespeare's contemporaries, usurpation of this kind was a crime against God"
- 2Alfred Bates - on Ariel (smart)Ariel is "the genius of the wonderful fable"
- 3Robert Wilson - on Prospero (drake)Prospero is the "controller, the manipulator"...but "also a struggling human being"
- 4Yates - on Prospero (science)Prospero : "He is just a huge...using his magic scientific powers for good"
- 5Laming (dumb)M + F are "alike in their ignorance"
- 6Voigts on P (evil magic)"the ultimate stage magician"
"father, magician or coloniser" - 7Voigts on Caliban"Noble savage"
"complex villain - victim, political rebel, poet and dreamer" - 8Linley (freedom)A play about the illusion of freedom
- 9Hullon (Pokahontis)Prospero is the representative of the Europeans who usurped the land of the native Americans and enslaved them
- 10Dickson (magic)Use of music = "often associated with enchantment or magic"
- 11Eddy - on P being mean to Fin Freudian terms that he resents Ferdinand as a rival
- 12Kermode on the masqueContributes to the play's magical atmosphere
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- Flashcards on Tempest Critics, created by lucy bon on 09/06/2017.
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