Jamie's Shakespeare Journal
The Tempest

Home

About Shakespeare
Class Notes
Contact Me
Famous Quotes
Favorite Links
Group Presentation
Individual Presentation
Journal Entries
"My" Play
Pictures
Test Material

  • Stranded on an island from a shipwreck.
  • Miranda falls in love with Ferdinand much to the joy of her father, Prospero.
  • Prospero is the senex, since he pretends to not want them to marry, although he has every intention of having them marry anyway.
  • Prospero - "And So it goes"
    • If you are around long enough, you will know every line of every script.
  • Replacement of female birth with male
    • Sycorax has Caliban and puts Ariel in a tree.
  • Caliban
    • rearranged is Canibal and thus described the "savage" nature of his character.
    • One of the best speeches in all of Shakespeare Act III Scene ii line 137.
    • Colonizing imagination - fashion the heathens to the look of colonists.
    • Caliban represents the savage in everyone.
    • Prospero sympathizes with Caliban - "noble savage"
  • Usurpation - to take by force (rape)
  • To "make it so"
  • Poesis - poetry
    • Greek derivation - to make
  • Grand Mechanism
  • Senex --> Blocking --> marriage
  • Antonio (Good) and Sebastian (Evil)
  • Storm --> Washed up on shore. Miranda sees the wreck.
  • Sycorax - evil woman, magical
  • Miranda - "O Brave new world"
    • Name comes from Mira, or miracle.
    • She is innocent/ignorant.
    • Ignorance is bliss.
    • TIME ~ tempus in latin.
  • A spectacle is that which is seen.