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Summary The Tempest Quotes for Literary Essay
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- English Home Language
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- 12th Grade
Important quotes from William Shakespeare's The Tempest, to be used when writing a literary essay
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TEMPEST QUOTESProspero + Caliban hatred
Caliban hates Prospero
- ‘This island's mine, by Sycorax my mother, which thou tak'st from me’
- ‘Thou taught me language, and my profit on't is, I know how to curse’
Prospero hates Caliban
- ‘Thou most lying slave, Whom stripes may move, not kindness’
- ‘A devil, a born devil, on whose nature nurture can never stick’
Feast (revenge on Antonio + Alonso)
- ‘You three are men of sin’
- ‘They are now in my power’
Masque (revenge on Antonio + Alonso)
Celebrating + wonders
Remembers Caliban’s plot (+ reminded of mortality)
- ‘I had forgot that foul conspiracy of the beast Caliban and his confederates
against my life’
Comes back to reality/ realisations
- ‘We are such stuff that dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with
a sleep’
Ariel reminds Prospero about importance of humanity +
empathy
- ‘If you now beheld them, your affections would become tender’
- ‘Mine would, were I human’
- ‘And mine shall’
Prospero shows humanity
Doesn’t snitch on Ant and Seb
- At this time I will tell no tales’
Doesn’t hurt them in storm
- ‘Not a hair perished’
Miranda tells Ferdinand that he is kind
- ‘My father's of better nature, sir, than he appears by speech’
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