Hierarchy/Class/ Power Dynamics

Hierarchy/Class/ Power Dynamics

1. "He's a present for any emperor that ever trod on neat's-leather" - Stephano

   • People are commodified

2. "You cannot tell who's your friend" - Stephano

   • Westerners think they know the right way of living

3. "That's a brave god and bears celestial liquor. I will kneel to him" "Hast thou not dropped from heaven?" - Caliban

   • Disadvantaged/uneducated blindly trust, submit to and idolise superior classes

4. "Man in the moon" - Stephano

   • Colonisers elevate status to hyperbolic level

5. "This is a very shallow monster...a very weak monster! A most poor, credulous monster!"

   • Natives are blamed for own naivety

6. "I will kiss thy foot. I prithee be my god" - Caliban

7. "I'll show thee the best springs; I'll pluck thee berries; I'll fish for thee, and get thee wood enough. A plague upon the tyrant that I serve! I'll bear him no more sticks, but follow thee, thou wondrous man" - Caliban

   • Natives will help colonisers out of desperation and hope for a better life, but are only exploited

8. "What cares these roarers for the name of king?" - Boatswain

   • Royalty is social construct and the power of man is limited

9. "The king and prince at prayers" - Gonzalo

   • As boatswain/mariners continue fighting to survive, whereas royalty seem to be anxious to atone - suggests they have more to be guilty of

10. "All hail, great master, grave sir, hail! I come to answer thy best pleasure, be't to fly, to swim, to dive into the fire! - Ariel

    • Hierarchy of master, servant and slave

11. "I have done thee worthy service, told thee no lies, made no mistakings, serv'd without or grudge or grumblings. Thou did promise to bate me a full year" - Ariel

    • All classes exploited, even those not considered slaves and who do work willingly

12. "It was mine art...that made gape the pine and let thee out" - Propsero

    • Master class claim they are liberators to blackmail servants into work

13. "Thou earth" "thou tortoise" "thou poisonous slave" - Prospero

    • Abuses lower class

14. "This island's mine by Sycorax my mother, which thou tak'st from me. When thou cam'st first thou strok'st me and made much of me; wouldst give me water with berries in't, and teach me how to name the bigger light and how the less...and then I lov'd thee and show'd thee a the qualities o'th'isle, the fresh springs, brine pits, barren place and fertile...and here you sty me in this hard rock, whiles you do keep me from the rest o'th'island" - Caliban

    • Colonisers pretend to agree to treaty's, but then steal from nations, exploit land and refuse to share profits

15. "I'th'commonwealth I would by contraries execute all things, for no king of traffic would I admit; no name of magistrate and use of service; letters should not be known; riches; poverty...all men idle, all, and women too, but innocent and pure; no sovereignty " - Gonzalo

    • "Yet he would be king on't" - Sebastian "The latter end of his commonwealth forgets the beginning" - Antonio
      • Utopian society cannot exist with class divisions and dictatorship

16. "Sometime like apes that mow and chatter at me, and after bite me...sometime am I all wound with adders, who with cloven tongues do hiss me into madness" - Caliban

    • Master class controls through violence and fear

17. "What a thrice-double ass was I to take this drunkard for a god and worship this dull fool!" - Caliban

    • Caliban's resolution is to no longer recognise authority