ENGL2443 Final - SP18
THE Tempest Act 2 Scene 1 Gonzalo (just landed on island, positive VP contrasted with
Antonio and Alonso) - ANS-Beseech you, sir,
... [Show More] be merry. You have cause / (So have we
all) of joy; for our escape / Is much beyond our loss. Our hint of woe / Is common: every
day some sailor's wife, / The master of some merchant, and the merchant / Have just
our theme of woe. But for the miracle -- / I mean our preservation -- few in millions / Can
speak like us. Then Wisely, good sir, weigh / Our sorrow with our comfort.
THE Tempest Act 3 Scene 2 Caliban (love & magic; books = magic; usurpation plot w/
Trinculo and Stephano) - ANS-Why, as I told thee, 'tis a custom with him / I' th'
afternoon to sleep. There thou mayst brain him, / Having first seized his books; or with a
log / Batter his skull, or paunch him with a stake, / Or cut his weasand with thy knife.
Remember / First to possess his books; for without them / He's but a sot, as I am, nor
hath not / One spirit to command -- they all do hate him / As rootedly as I. Burn his
books. / He has brave utensils (for so he calls them) / Which, when he has a house, he'll
deck withal. / And that most deeply to consider is / The beauty of his daughter. He
himself / Calls her a nonpareil. / I never saw a woman / But only Sycorax my dam and
she; / But she as far surpasseth Sycorax / As great'st does least.
THE Tempest Act 3 Scene 2 Caliban (attachment to the island/humanization) - ANS-Be
not afeard: the isle is full of noises, / Sounds, and sweet airs that give delight and hurt
not. / Sometimes a thousand twanging instruments / Will hum about mine ears; and
sometimes voices, / That, if I then had waked after long sleep, / Will make me sleep
again; and then, in dreaming, / The clouds methought would open and show riches /
Ready to drop upon me, that, when I waked, / I cried to dream again.
THE Tempest Act 3 Scene 3 Gonzalo (humanizing inhabitants; "noble savage"; less
afraid than other wrecked characters) - ANS-If in Naples / I should report this now,
would they believe me? / If I should say I saw such islanders / (For certes these people
of the island) / Who, though they are of monstrous shape, yet note, / Their manners are
more gentle, kind, than of / Our human generation you shall find / Many -- nay, almost
any.
THE Tempest Act 4 Scene 1 Prospero (sleep = death; end of play w/in a play; awake
from dream of life (play) into new reality) - ANS-We are such stuff / As dreams are
made on, and our little life / Is rounded with a sleep.
THE Tempest Act 4 Scene 1 Prospero (catches Caliban, T&S; nurture can't fix Caliban's
nature) - ANS-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.
THE Tempest Act 5 Scene 1 Ariel (end of plot; biblical allusion to Earth's creation in 6
days; the day Prospero has told Ariel he can quit working) - ANS-On the sixth hour, at
which time, my lord, / You said our work should cease.
THE Tempest Act 5 Scene 1 Miranda (curtain drawn to reveal M&F playing chess;
Miranda in awestruck wonder at sight of new people) - ANS-O, wonder! / How many
goodly creatures are there here? / How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world /
That has such people in't!
THE Tempest Act 5 Scene 1 Prospero (very end of plot; again saying nurture cannot fix
C's nature; C apologizes after and P sends him away; epilogue soon following) - ANSHe is as disproportioned in his manners / As in his shape. Go, sirrah, to my cell; / Take
with you your companions. As you look / To have my pardon, trim it handsomely.
THE Tempest Epilogue Prospero (letting go of magic; magic = playwriting;
representative of Shakespeare's farewell) - ANS-Now my charms are all o'erthrown, /
And what strength I have's mine own, / Which is most faint. Now 'tis true / I must be
here confined by you, / Or sent to Naples. Let me not, / Since I have my dukedom got /
And pardoned the deceiver, dwell / In this bare island by your spell, / But release me
from my bands / With the help of your good hands. / Gentle breath of yours my sails /
Must fill, or else my project fails, / Which was to please. Now I want / Spirits to enforce,
art to enchant; / And my ending is despair, Unless I be relieved by your prayer / Which
pierces so, that it assaults / Mercy itself and frees all my faults. / As you from crimes
would pardoned be, / Let your indulgence set me free.
A Tempest Act 1 Scene 1 Boatswain (on boat, Gale = nature; nature now sovereign;
tempest a character of its own, not done by P) - ANS-King! King! Well, there's someone
who doesn't give a **** more about the king than he does about you or me, and he's
called the Gale. His majesty the Gale! And right now, he's in control and we're all his
subjects.
A Tempest Act 1 Scene 2 Prospero (explaining exile to M; journey to unknown - science
instead of magic to discover island; accused of sorcery and exiled) - ANS-In any event,
when they learned that through my studies and experiments I had managed to discover
the exact location of these lands for which many had sought for centuries and that I was
making preparations to set forth to take possession of them, they hatched a scheme to
steal my as-yet-unborn empire from me.
A Tempest Act 1 Scene 2 Prospero (explaining exile to M; flashback/reciting Friar
saying there would be a trial; back in present & speaking about those who exiled him
being too afraid of trial) - ANS-And yet, the trial they said they were going to hold never
took place. Such creatures of darkness are too much afraid of the light.
A Tempest Act 1 Scene 2 Prospero (Ariel arguing about following orders; P makes A an
intellectual in this version) - ANS-Oh, so you're upset, are you! It's always like that with
you intellectuals! Who cares!...
A Tempest Act 1 Scene 2 Ariel (resistant to being P's slave; talking about trees from
Africa; nostalgia for being a part of nature) - ANS-Sometime I almost regret it... After all,
I might have turned into a real tree in the end... Tree: that's a word that really gives me a
thrill! It often springs to mind: palm tree... The baobao... Or the ceiba tree...
A Tempest Act 1 Scene 2 Caliban (more articulate; not afraid of P; accusing P of using
him to learn about the island and then neglecting/enslaving him) - ANS-Once you've
squeezed the juice from the orange, you toss the rind away!
A Tempest Act 1 Scene 2 Caliban (rejection of P; X = no name; re-claiming identity for
himself) - ANS-Call me X. That would be best. Like a man without a name. Or, to be
more precise, a man whose name has been stolen. You talk about history... well, that's
history, and everyone knows it! Every time you summon me if reminds me of a basic
fact, the fact that you've stolen everything from me, even my identity! Uhuru!
A Tempest Act 2 Scene 1 Caliban (Caliban singing in his cave; Shango = African God of
lightning) - ANS-May he who eats his corn heedless of Shango be accursed! May
Shango creep beneath his nails and eat into his flesh! Shango, Shango ho! Forget to
give him room if you dare! He will make himself at home on your nose! Refuse to have
him under your roof at your own risk! He'll tear off your roof and wear it as a hat!
Whoever tries to mislead Shango will suffer for it! Shango, Shango ho!
A Tempest Act 2 Scene 2 Gonzalo (arrival on island; more narcissistic in this version;
noble savages = zoos = gazing at someone/something from afar) - ANS-I mean that if
the island is inhabited, as I believe, and if we colonize it, as is my hope, then we have to
take every precaution not to import our shortcomings, yes, what we call civilization.
They must stay as they are: savages, noble and good savages, free, without any
complexes or complications. Something like a pool granting eternal youth where we
periodically come to restore aging, citified souls.
A Tempest Act 2 Scene 2 Prospero (after having A bring in banquet for shipwrecked
and then take it away and then bring it again) - ANS-That is how power is measured. I
am power.
A Tempest Act 3 Scene 1 Caliban (sees F working, Macaya = slave rebellion leader in
Haiti) - ANS-Poor kid! What would he say if he was Caliban! He works night and day,
and when he sings, it's: Oo-en-day, Oo-en-day, Oo-en-day, Macaya...
A Tempest Act 3 Scene 3 Eshu (added to undercut P's power in this version, obscene
song = "body" as classic Greek comedy) - ANS-Eshu can play many tricks, give him
twenty dogs! You will see his dirty tricks. Eshu plays a trick on the queen and makes her
so upset that she runs naked into the street. Eshu plays a trick on the bride, and on the
day of the wedding she get into the wrong bed! Eshu can throw a stone yesterday and
kill a bird today. He can make a mess out of order and vice-versa. Ah, Eshu is a
wonderful bad joke. Eshu is not the man to carry a heavy load. His head comes to a
point. When he dances he doesn't move his shoulders... Oh, Eshu is a merry elf! Eshu
is a merry elf, and he can whip you with his dick, he can whip you, he can whip you... [Show Less]