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Illusions and deception

The Tempest itself

"Your charms so strongly works 'em that if you now behold them, your affection would become tender."- Ariel

"Not a soul but felt a fever of the mad...Not a hair perish'd. On their sustaining garments not a blemish."- Ariel

Links to Theatre

Ariel= Actor

Prospero= Director or Shakespeare

"Hast thou performed the tempest I bade thee?"- Prospero

"Bravely the figure of this Harpy hast thou performed, my Ariel."-Prospero

"In air he lives, from airs he derives his being, in air he acts."- St Coleridge

"Prospero's intent is on controlling everything and everyone else."- Graham Bradshaw

"My high charms work, and these my enemies, are all knit up in their distractions."

"I'll to my book, for... must I perform much business appertaining."- end of act 5

"Prospero stage manages the action to regain power." Neil Bowman

Like Shakespeare distracts his audience with his 'art' of writing.

Men vs Monsters

Caliban

The Kings men- "Noble"

"Thou earth, thou speak"

"A devil, a born devil, who's nature nurture cannot stick"

"Bash his head in, paunch him with a steak."

Is Caliban as monsterous though as the men?

Be not afeard. The isle is full of noises, sweet airs that give delight and hurt not...that when I wak'd I cried to dream again."

"A product of natural lust, his language is as hobgoblin as his person. In all things he is distinguished from other mortals."- John Dryden

"O wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here!"- Miranda

Antonio plots to kill King with Sebastian

Naïve and has no idea

"Th' occasion speaks thee, and my strong imagination sees a crown dropping upon thy head."

Women

Sycorax

Miranda

Independant

Controlled by male figures

"Possess all the delicacy of innocence."- St Coleridge

"Oh father make not too rash a trial on him for he is gentle."

"I am your wife, if you will marry me, if not I'll die your maid."

"Miranda takes his orders at face value and disobeys them anyway."- Mellissa E Sanchez

"Thou art inclined to sleep...I know thou cans't choose"- Prospero

"Miranda is what she is because she has been his pupil"- J.M Murray

"Tell you piteous heart to be collected."- Prospero

Nature vs Nurture

Caliban

"I took pains to teach you language yet...you choose to violate the honour of my child"- Prospero

"You taught me language and my profit on't is that I know how to curse"- Caliban

Confinement and Freedom

Ariel

Caliban

Ferdinand

"The Tempest has been seen as a play about power, perhaps it should be regarded as a play about the illusion of freedom."- David Lindley

"My brave spirit!

"I shall miss thee, but thou shalt have freedom."- Prospero

Let me remind thee what thou hast performed, whish is not yet performed me."- Prospero

"Abhorred slave"

"I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer that by his cunning hath cheated me of the isle."

"I must obey. His art is of such power"

"I'll show thee every fertile inch o'th island- I will kiss thy foot. I prithee my God." Caliban to Stephano

"How fine my master is! I am afraid he will chastise me."

"Follow me- Speak not for him he is a traitor." Prospero

Compassion and Forgivness

Caliban and Repentance

Prospero and his family

"I will be wise hereafter and seek for grace. What a thrice double ass I was to take this drunkard for a lord."

"For you, most wicked sir, whom to call brother would infect my mouth, I do forgive thy rankest fault."

"I seek him deeper that e'er plummet rounded, and with him there lie mudded." Alonso about Ferdinand

Viewed as a renaissance magnus

Art and magic

Propero's art creates the play

"If by your art...you have put the wild waters in this roar, away then"- Miranda

"Pluck my magic art from me...so lie there my art"- Prospero

"The most blasphemous play Shakespeare ever wrote...it is about a man who is allowed to play God and who doesn't just dabble with craft but actually performs it." Peter Hall

"We are such stuff that dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep."- Prospero

Cleansing process

"Their understanding begins to swell that now lies foul and muddy"- Prospero

"Interestingly in alchemy a tempest is the term for shifting out impurities"- Mark Hebron

Gonzalo and Common wealth

"All things in common nature should produce without sweat and endeavour."

Marxist

"i'th' commonwealth I would...execute all things."

Tempest themes quotes