Scene 1: alonso
“Would I never married my daughter for there”
“My son is lost, and in my rate she is too”
+regrets loss of both of his children- moves from political to personal qualities encouraging empathy
+Urgent exclamation subjunctive
Fatalistic would..her
1: Sebastian
“Sir, you may thank yourself for this great loss
“But rather lose her to an African”
+tells alonso his is to blame
+Racial issues at time
+sir- social hierarchy- contrasts with what about to say as obvs doesn’t respect
- About clarabel
“The fair soul herself weighed between loathness and obedience
+clarebls attitude to marriage
+racial issues
+women’s position and lack of choiss
“Fair” perspectives on women
- Gonzalo
“I th commonwealth i would by contraries execute all things”
+Gonzalos plan for ruling the island
+based on and directly quotes Montaigne
+Ideas are opposite than the norm
+idealised utopian society that would have been controversial
- Gonzalo
“I would with such perfection, govern sir, to excel the golden age
+Golden age implies the time under James and Elizabeth as monarch
+Wants to bring forth Europe into golden age
+Classical references that illudes to the paradise before man
1: Antonio
“Long live Gonzalo!”
+Mocks Gonzalo as doesn’t undertsnaand his vision
+Shows corruption of civilised society
+Arrogance and impotence means that they don’t achieve much
1: Antonio
“My strong imagination sees a crown dropping upon thy head”
+Crown is a symbol of power
+”Dropping” implies effortless and invisible action
+Manipulative language through royal imagery
1: Sebastian
“I do an surely it is a sleepy language”
+Belives saying these decisions in his sleep due to the treasonous content
+Naive??
+Suggests its an unconscious decision
1: Antonio
“Noble Sebastian”
+Continued flattery and reminder of royal authorities to lure into deceit
1: Antonio
“She dwells ten leagues beyond mans life”
+Exageration and hyperbole for manipulation
+Argues that fate brought them the oppurtuniy to overthrow
+Imagery of time throughout this passage
1: Antonio
“Ay, sir: Where lies that”
+Sir almost mocking and defying of hierarchy
+Further manipulation
+Doesnt feel any guilt for his actions
1: antonio
“”How well my garments sit upon me”
“My brothers servants were then my fellows , now they are my men”
+Clothing imagery indicates higher status
+Contrast of equality and superiority versus inferiority
2: Caliban
“But they’ll nor pinch, fright me with urchin shows, pitch me ithmire”
+Spirits frighten caliban leasinf him out o way
+Punished for every small offence- leading him to madness
2: Caliban
“Do hiss me into madness”
+questions prosperous enjoymentt of the punishments
+Asonsance represents the snakes- enriching imagery for the audience- harsh reflecting punishment
2: Trinculo
“A fish, he smells like a fish; a very ancient anf fishlike smell”
+Repetion shows lack of intelligence or homour, or to show his drunken state
+Animal imagery dehumanises caliban
+Dramatic irony as we know caliban is not a fish
+Humour intertwined with serious themes
2: Trinculo
“There would this monster make a man; any strange beast there makes a man”
+Dramatic irony as the play performed in England
+Emphasises colonial habits of showcasing natives- dehumanised but would profit from it
2: Stephano
“If I can recover him, and keep him tame, and get to Naples with him, a presen for any emperor that’s every trod on beats leather”
+Colonlist interp- first view of Natives is to profit of them
+Reflects shakespeares time
2: Stephano
“Here is that which will give language to you, cat”
+Colonalism- colonists come and enlighten natives with the rhyme
+T+S lack of intelligence degrades natives- seen as inferior to all
2: Stephano
“Moon calf”
+animal imagery portrays as a monstrosity due to the influence of the moon
2: Stephano
“I was the man i’th’moon when time was”
+Man banished to moon- mocks the nayives claim tat there is a god on the moon
+Mocks polytheism of natives and shows caliban as gullible
2: Caliban
“I swear upon that bottle to by thy true subject, for the liquor is not earthly”
+Celestial imagery
+Stephano revealed to Prospero- caliban goes from one leader to another
+Parels between caliban reaction to P and or s and t
2: Trinculo
“I laugh myself to death at this puppy headed monster”
+Parady of the monarchy shows the corrupt leadership- catabolism????????/
+repeats point later in aside- rennciolation shows his stupidity
+change in powe dynamic. However natives are still controlled
