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Summary The Tempest Quotes
- Course
- English Home Language
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- 12th Grade
A precise document for The Tempest quotes based on important themes of the play. This is used in IEB grade 11-12 schools
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Quotes Page by ThemesColonialism & Power
Antonio
Power hungry
- “Extirpate me and mine” - Both Antonio and Alonso were equally thirsty for
power
- They did not destroy them entirely because Prospero says “so dear the love
my people bore me”
- “Thou let’st thy fortune sleep” = ambition
- “What to come in yours and my discharge” – power to change things
(power & colonialism)
- Confrontation - Antonio believes it is right that he over threw his brother
because “garments sit upon me, much feather than before”
Prospero
Sycorax vs Prospero
- Sycorax gives “abhorred commands”
- Prospero tells him that Ariel’s life when Sycorax is alive that Ariel’s groans
makes “wolves howl”
- potent art / rough magic
Dictorial with Caliban
- Prospero sees Caliban as “freckled whelp, hag-born”
- In Caliban’s eyes Prospero “cheated me of the island”
- “I’ll rack thee with old cramps” – Prospero will torture him if he doesn’t
obey
- I loved thee
- Born devil
- Let them be hunted soundly
Beneficiant with Ariel
- “Oh hail, great master” = polite, servant Ariel
- Ariel agrees to being “correspondent to command” = compliant, submissive
- “three men of sin”
- Views them as “worse than devils”
Gonzalo
- Compassionate “foul weather in us all. When you are cloudy” – grief as
you grief
- Prays for dry land; says he “would give thousand furlongs of sea for an
acre of barren ground” and would rather “fain die a dry death”.
- My true preserver and a loyal sir
- Honourable man
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