THEME SCENE ONE SCENE TWO SCENE THREE

Verbal ‘Dost thou attend me’

Dominance
Visual Comedy Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. –
Trinculo
Hast thou not dropped from heaven? – Caliban
"A very ancient and fish-like smell." 
‘A most ridiculous monster – to make a wonder of a
poor drunkard’ – Trinculo
‘Out the moon, I assure thee (dropped out of)
Stephano
‘yet a tailor might scratch her where she did itch’
Love/Adoratio ‘I have done nothing but in care of thee’ ‘a thing divine, for nothing natural I ever saw so noble’ ‘how beauteous mankind is’
n ‘nothing ill can dwell in such a temple’

Being a ‘thou liest you malignant thing’ ‘hell is empty, all the devils are here’
monster ‘being capable of only ill’
‘thy vile race, deservedly confined into this rock’
‘you bawling, blashphemous, uncharitable dog’
‘thou did seek to violate the honour of my child’
‘a devil, a born devil, on whose nature nurture can never stick’
‘thou poisonous slave, got by the devil’
Water and
Drowning

Books and ‘my library, which was dukedom enough’

knowledge

Master and ‘all hail great master’ ‘That’s a brave god that bears celestial liquor, I will “You are three men of sin”
Servant ‘thou shalt have cramps and side stitches, thou shall be pinched’ kneel to him’ “I’ll manacle thy neck and feet together” (1:2 –
‘my liberty, remember I have done thee worthy service’ ‘I’ll kiss thy foot and swear myself thy subject’ Prospero) Punishes Ferdinand even though he knows
‘a plague upon the tyrant I serve’ ‘exactly performed, but there is more work’ he is innocent.
‘thou shalt be free as mountain winds, but then exactly do all points of my command’ “Delicate Ariel” vs. “Brutish slave” (Caliban) (1:2)

Colonialism ‘this island is mine, by Sycorax my mother’ Execute all things; for no kind of traffic “they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, /
‘he does make our fire, fetch our wood’ Would I admit; no name of magistrate; they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.” (2:2 –
‘I showed thee all the qualities of the island’ No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil;… Trinculo)
‘dost thou forget from what a torment I did free thee?’ No sovereignty—  ‘ “Their manners are more gentle-kind than of / Our
‘you taught me language…I know how to curse’ Is Shakespeare endorsing Montaigne's ideas by putting human generation” (3:3 – Gonzalo)
them into the mouth of his characters?
Feminity ‘O, I have suffered, With those that I saw suffer’ ‘a thing divine, for nothing natural I ever saw so noble’ ‘oh brave new world’
“Thy mother was a piece of virtue” ‘nothing ill can dwell in such a temple’ “O, if a virgin” – the most important aspect?
“The foul witch Sycorax” / “This blue-eyed hag” ‘you may deny me but I’ll be your servant’ Sycorax’s power to “control the moon” is a quality of
Ferdinand: “If you be a maid or no?” Miranda: “But certainly a maid” (Maid = Married/Virgin) ‘I’ll die your maid’ Medea, from Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Prospero
– blasé discussion of her sexuality. (1:2) “It would become me/As well as it does you” – she can has some traits from the same witch – they are more
carry wood just as well as Ferdinand similar than Prospero believes?
“If thou dost break her virgin-knot...” “Hymen’s lamps
shall light you” (4:1 – Prospero) Purity
Theatricality ‘the great globe itself shall dissolve’
‘with the help of your good hands, let your indulgences set me free’ Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air;

Fantasy and “I must obey. His art is of such power…” – Caliban ‘we are such stuff that dreams are made of’ This is a most majestic vision, and
Magic “There’s no harm done.” (1:2 – Prospero) – His magic is benigh ‘…that when I waked, I cried to dream again’ Harmoniously charmingly. May I be bold  
Sycorax’s power to “control the moon” is a quality of Medea, from Ovid’s Metamorphoses and To think these spirits? 
Prospero has some traits from the same witch – they are more similar than Prospero believes? like the baseless fabric of this vision
Come, temperate nymphs
1. “I say by sorcery he got this isle” (3:2 –
Caliban)

Nature To cry to the sea that roared to us, to sigh ‘be not afeard, the isle is full of noises’ Iambic Merrily, merrily, shall I live now
To the winds whose pity, sighing back again, Pentameter/Verse – beauty and eloquence of his Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.- Ariel
Did us but loving wrong speech. “Thunder and lightning” (3:3 – Stage direction)
At the time of their exile, Prospero remembers the sea like an enemy, and the wind like a lover. Pathetic fallacy is employed actively by Prospero
“Tempestuous noise of thunder and lightning...” (1:1 – Stage direction) Violent side of nature-
artificial
“Make thyself like a nymph o’th’sea.” – Ariel’s relationship with water – delicate

THE 1. “Some vanity of mine art” – Prospero sees the masque as a little nonsense compared to the
MASQUE more serious uses of magic
2. “All eyes!” – the courtly masques were primarily visual so Prospero’s command emphasises
this aspect
3. The masque is described as “A contract of true love to celebrate”
4. “Her and her blind boy’s scandall’d company/ I have forsworn” – Venus and Cupid weren’t
seen to be chaste representations of love and were banned
5. “no bed-right shall be paid/Till Hymen’s torch be lighted”

PROSPER 1. Describes himself as ‘A prince of power-”

O 2. with volumes that / I prize above my dukedom” – he presumably ‘drowns’ these later – he
changes?
3. “Have I, thy schoolmaster, made thee more profit”
4. “They are now in my power”
 5. “I must/Bestow upon the eyes of this young couple/Some vanity of mine art”
6. “But this rough magic / I here abjure”

ARIEL 1. “Approach my Ariel. Come.” – Endearment or possession?

2. “thou wast a spirit too delicate/To act her earthly and abhorr’d commands” – Ariel only acts
for good? Ironic – Prospero uses him for revenge
3. “What shall I do? Say what: what shall I do?” – Repetition shows Ariel’s submissiveness
towards Prospero
4. “Do you love me, master? No?”
5. “Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling/Of their afflictions”

MIRAND 1. “Alack, what trouble/Was I then to you!”

A 2. “This/Is the third man that e’er I saw,”
3. Prospero calls her “a third of mine own life”
4. “I pitied thee, / Took pains to make thee speak”

CALIBAN 1. “A freckled whelp, hag-born – not honour’d with/A human shape”

2. “I lov’d thee”
3. “Ca-Caliban/Has a new master” “Freedom, high-day!” – Irony / juxtaposing lines

GONZAL 1. “A noble Neapolitan, Gonzalo,/Out of his charity” – Caesura emphasises ‘out of his charity’
O “joy, for our escape/Is much beyond our loss.”
2. “How lush and lusty the grass looks! How green!” / Antonio – “The ground indeed is tawny.”
3. “And were the king on’t” – “No sovereignty” - Quotes Montaigne’s essay verbatim
4. “Holy Gonzalo, honourable man” “I will pay thy graces” – Prospero’s judgement of him is
positive