The tempest - Themes
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- Themes
- Power
- Freedom
- Prospero sets Ariel free
- Frees Antonio of his torment on the island
- Reunites Alonso with his son
- Prospero
- Enslaved Caliban
- I acknowledge mine
- Abhorred slave
- Commands Ariel
- Controlling of Miranda
- Lost power
- Usurped of his dukedom
- Fear of losing power again is deep seated
- Enslaved Caliban
- Masters and Servants
- Most are characterised by some form of resentment
- Boatswain
- Challenges authority of the King
- What cares these roarers for the name of the King?
- Challenges authority of the King
- Ariel
- Unwilling servant and longs for freedom
- Caliban
- Deep resentment for Prospero
- You taught me language and my profit on't is I know how to curse
- Deep resentment for Prospero
- Antonio and Sebastian
- Challenge the rightful authority of the King
- Plan to murder Alonso
- Challenge the rightful authority of the King
- Stephano
- Assumes the role of King and takes Caliban as his servant
- Boatswain
- Most are characterised by some form of resentment
- Freedom
- Forgiveness or revenge
- Forgiveness
- Prospero
- Antonio
- Rids them of their torment and allows them to leave the island
- The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance
- I do forgive thy rankest fault
- Alosnso
- Reunites him with his son
- I will requite you with as good a thing
- Reunites him with his son
- Let us not burden our remembrances with a heaviness that has gone
- Antonio
- Alonso
- asks Ferdinand for forgiveness
- I must ask my child for forgiveness
- asks Ferdinand for forgiveness
- Prospero
- Revenge
- Prospero
- Antonio
- Desire for vengeance has lay dormant in Prospero throughout the years of banishment
- Wants to see them suffer for their crimes before they are forgiven
- Desire for vengeance has lay dormant in Prospero throughout the years of banishment
- Alonso
- Makes him believe his son has died
- Irreparable is the loss
- Makes him believe his son has died
- I will plague them all
- Antonio
- Caliban
- Prospero
- Forgiveness
- Supernatural
- The Tempest is propelled by magical forces
- Ariel
- Spirit of the air
- I flamed amazement
- Were I human
- Spirit of the air
- Sounds
- Resemble the spirits of the island
- The isle is full of noises, sounds and sweet airs
- Marvellous sweet music
- Provide atmosphere to key moments in the play
- Resemble the spirits of the island
- Prospero
- Magical acts
- Summons a tempest
- Freed Ariel from a tree
- Could give Caliban cramps
- Tonight thou shalt have cramps
- Has a magic cloak
- Magical acts
- Nature or nurture
- Represented by the characters: Miranda and Caliban
- Miranda = nurture
- Adored by father
- Cherubin
- Evident from first speech in play
- Able to show sympathy for those in the shipwreck
- O I have suffered, with those that I saw suffer
- Able to show sympathy for those in the shipwreck
- Her purpose is to symbolise the positive effects of nurture
- And how it contrasts with nature and Caliban
- Adored by father
- Caliban = nature
- Prospero failed to educate Caliban
- Caliban is guided by his natural lusts: greed, envy and violence
- Tried to **** Miranda
- Till thou didst seek to violate the honour of my child
- I had peopled else this isle with Calibans
- Tried to **** Miranda
- You taught me language; and my profit on't is, I know how to curse
- Caliban is guided by his natural lusts: greed, envy and violence
- A devil, a born devil, on whose nature nurture can never stick
- Prospero failed to educate Caliban
- Miranda = nurture
- Represented by the characters: Miranda and Caliban
- Power
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