The Tempest

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Sammy Smallacombe

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Cards (62)

  • 'You mar our labour - keep your cabins' Boatswain
  • 'Thou liest, thou damned witch!' - Alonso
  • A pox on your throat, you bawling blaspameous, incharitable dog' Sebastian
  • 'Thy father was the duke of Milan and prince of power' Prospero
  • 'and in her most unmitigable rage/ into a cloven pine' Prospero
  • 'This island's mine by Sycorax my mother' Caliban
  • 'had seed hence!' Prospero
  • 'O if a virgin, Ill make you the king of Naples' Ferdinand
  • 'My foot my tutor' Prospero
  • Sir you may thank yourself for this great loss/“Not bless our Europe with your daughter but rather lose her to African” Sebastian
  • 'Cherubin' - Prospero
  • ' i prize above my dukedom' - prospero
  • 'all hail great master, grave sir,' - ariel
  • Ariel- 'no sir' Prospero - 'thou hast. where was she born? speak. tell me.

    shared line contains 5 sentences denoting the sharpness and emotional weight
  • 'this islands mine by Sycorax my mother' - Caliban
  • ‘hid’ in the ‘still-vexed Bermudas’  - ARIEL
  • Many believe that The Tempest  was inspired by a historical shipwreck which occurred in 1609, when a vessel called the ‘Sea Venture’ that was on its way to Virginia, with supplies to support the English settlers there, was caught in a hurricane. The storm caused the crew to be stranded on Bermuda, and the story of their survival made great waves back in England.
  • He then asserts himself as ‘lord’ (5.1.162) of the island and uses his powers to enslave its native inhabitants for his ‘profit’ 
  • He repeatedly insults Caliban in the play, by calling him a ‘devil’ (1.2.320), a ‘poisonous slave’ (1.2.320) and ‘malice’ (1.2.368). He also instructs the spirits to abuse him with ‘stinging’ pinches (1.2.330). Similarly, when Ariel asks his master for the freedom he was promised after giving him ‘worthy service’ (1.2.246), Prospero tells him to be grateful for his job, and threatens that if Ariel continues to complain he will ‘peg’  the spirit in ‘an oak’ tree until he ‘hast howled away twelve winters’ (1.2.294-6).
  • 'violate the honour of my child' - prospero
  • 'goddess' Ferdinand about miranda
  • 'have i in such a prison' Ferdinand
  • ' i will make you the queen of naples' ferdinand