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ACT 1, SCENE 1Sebastian to boatswain: "A pox o' your throat, you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog!”
Antonio to boatswain: “Hang, cur hang, you whoreson, insolent noisemaker!"
Gonzalo accepts his fate: “The wills above be done,"
ACT 1, SCENE 2
Prospero to Miranda - letting her know that he is far more than merely her father:
"...I am more better/ Than Prospero,"
"Thy father was the Duke of Milan and/ A prince of power."
"And Prospero the prime duke, being so reputed/ In dignity, and for the liberal Arts/
Without a parallel;"
Prospero about Antonio:
"... that a brother should/ Be so perfidious!" (treacherous)
"The government I cast upon my brother,"
“...my false brother..."
"...he needs will be/ Absolute Milan."
Prospero indicating that he neglected his duties to study:
"1, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated/ To closeness and the bettering of my mind"
Prospero about Alonso:
“This King of Naples, being an enemy/ To me inveterate,"
Prospero tells Miranda the reason they were not killed is that his subjects held him in such
high regard:
"So dear the love my people bore me;"
, Sycorax imprisoned Ariel as she would not carry out her foul commands:
"Refusing her grand hests, she did confine thee,"
Prospero's description of Caliban:
“A freckled whelp, hag-born - not honoured with/ A human shape." "Thou poisonous slave,
got by the devil himself"
"Hag-seed"
Miranda about Caliban:
"Tis a villain, sir/ I do not love to look on."
"I pitied thee,/ Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour / One thing or other."
Caliban to Prospero about how he once loved him:
“And then I loved thee,/ And showed thee all the qualities o'th'isle,"
Caliban on how Prospero keeps him as a slave:
"Which first was mine own king: and here you sty me" "His Art is of such power,"
The reason why Prospero turned on Caliban:
"...thou didst seek to violate / The honour of my child."
Prospero's description of Ferdinand:
"...he's something stained/With grief, that's beauty's canker," (grief destroys beauty)
Miranda about Ferdinand:
“This/ Is the third man that e'er I saw, the first/That e'er I sighed for."
"There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple."
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