Prospero, Ariel and Caliban

The Tempest: Prospero, Ariel and Caliban

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Analyse how Prospero’s speech from Act 1 Scene 2 shows his control over Ariel.

PROSPERO Hast thou, spirit, Performed to point the tempest that I bade thee?

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Analyse how Prospero’s speech from Act 1 Scene 2 shows his control over Caliban.

PROSPERO Hag-seed, hence: Fetch us in fuel, and be quick

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Analyse how Caliban’s speech from Act 1 Scene 2 shows his feelings for Prospero.

CALIBAN [aside] I must obey; his art is of such power It would control my dam’s god Setebos

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Analyse how Ariel’s speech from Act 1 Scene 2 shows his feelings for Prospero.

ARIEL All hail, great master; grave sir, hail! I come To answer thy best pleasure [2]

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Analyse how this extract from Act 4 Scene 1 presents the relationship between Prospero and Caliban.

PROSPERO A devil, a born devil, on whose nature Nurture can never stick; on whom my pains Humanely taken – all, all lost, quite lost! And, as with age his body uglier grows, So his mind cankers. I will plague them all, Even to roaring. Come, hang them on this line. [Enter Ariel, loaden with glistering apparel, etc. Enter Caliban, Stephano, and Trinculo, all wet.] CALIBAN Pray you tread softly, that the blind mole may Not hear a footfall. We now are near his cell.

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Compare how these extracts from Act 1 Scene 2 and Act 4 Scene 1 present the relationship between Prospero and Ariel. Write your answer on a separate piece of paper.

PROSPERO If thou more murmur’st, I will rend an oak And peg thee in his knotty entrails till Thou has howled away twelve winters. ARIEL Pardon, master, I will be correspondent to command

ARIEL [singing] Merrily, merrily, shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough. PROSPERO Why, that’s my dainty Ariel! I shall miss thee, But yet thou shalt have freedom. – So, so, so. –To the King’s ship, invisible as thou art; [6]