Thompson- Miranda
Miranda has a fully internlised patriachal assumption that a womans main function is to ptrovide a legitimate sucsesssion
Brett- Miranda
“Mirandas apparent freedom is entirely illusionary
Northrop- Antonio and Sebastain
“Are the real dreamers, sunk into the hallucination of gred”
Gibson- Shakespeare
“Shakespeare presents a eurocentric view of colonisation in the tempest”
Knight- Ariel and Caliban
Ariel and Caliban are like Platos to seeds of the soul, the noble and the hideous
Berry- Caliban
“Caliban is the other and Prospero has control over him through language”
Daniel- Prospero
Prosperos art is to achieve supermacy over the natural world by holy magic
Kermode- Miranda
“Miranda is inexperienced but not naive”
Todd- Caliban
“only calibans body is enslaved
Green- Prospero
“Propspero can be seen as the composer of the events of the play”
Lindley- Jacobean vs modern audience
“modern habits of mind, do not generally accept as Shakpespeares society generally did, that the authority of the master over servant is fundamentally unquestionable”
Marxist critic
“Challenges the social and political hierachy ad the class divide which elevates prosperos position while diminishing Calibans
Wells and Orlin- virginity
“Female virginity is a source of intolerable anxiety among the male character”
Smith- Prospero
“Prospero shows great creative energy but are negative representations”
Greenblatt- Language
“Language is the perfect instrument of empire”
Gritthiths- Caliban
“Caliban is lost without the civilising influence exerted on him by prospero”
Molesy- Jacobean audience
“No jacobean audience woud have watched the tempest with the idea of colonialism”
Todd- Caliban
“Only Caliban’s body is enslaved”
Molesy- Trinculo and Stephano
“Trinculo and Stephano are far more repulsive than caliban”
Delvin- Caliban
“Calibans recepitiveness expresses a spirituality that raises him above base umanity”
Coleridge- Ariel
“Ariel has a childlike simplicty”
Hathaway- Ariel
Ariel delights in serving prospero and is eager to show his devotion
Goring- Ariel
“Ariel is a remove alien character, indifferent to human affairs and longing only for freedom”
Colderige- Ariel 2
“Areil is an emlemental spirity robbed of freedom and tortured by the loss”
