The Tempest by Eleanor McCausland https://padlet.com/eleanom/8dx5dd68p10u en-us 2020-02-12 10:02:46 UTC 2020-02-12 10:50:54 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f3dd.png https://padlet.com/eleanom/8dx5dd68p10u/wish/444235013 The Island inhabits its own magic that the humans just wants to exploit and control.  

The Island is described as uninhabited, but Caliban, Ariel and the spirits already live there (refers to how the colonizers viewed new and discovered lands as theirs for the taking and non-civilized). 
 
The Island isolates the characters from the rest of the world - their meeting and conflict is inevitable. People act without the constraints of civilization. 

The Island symbols a new beginning for the characters (redemption) - Act 2 Scene 1, lines 140-163

The Island is portrayed as a mystery containing magic and illusions (it appears in different ways to each of the characters) - Act 3 scene 2, lines 128-136 (Caliban describing the mystery of the island)
]]> 2020-02-12 10:19:45 UTC https://padlet.com/eleanom/8dx5dd68p10u/wish/444235013 https://padlet.com/eleanom/8dx5dd68p10u/wish/444235195 Prospero creating the storm to cause the shipwreck]]> 2020-02-12 10:20:18 UTC https://padlet.com/eleanom/8dx5dd68p10u/wish/444235195 https://padlet.com/eleanom/8dx5dd68p10u/wish/444235517 Shows power struggles]]> 2020-02-12 10:21:20 UTC https://padlet.com/eleanom/8dx5dd68p10u/wish/444235517 https://padlet.com/eleanom/8dx5dd68p10u/wish/444235646 Ariel a spirit of magic, sometrhing valuable/resource. We do not know the gender, but possibly female. ]]> 2020-02-12 10:21:48 UTC https://padlet.com/eleanom/8dx5dd68p10u/wish/444235646 Oppression makes people vengeful (former servants/slaves plot to kill and overthrow Prospero) https://padlet.com/eleanom/8dx5dd68p10u/wish/444235813 2020-02-12 10:22:22 UTC https://padlet.com/eleanom/8dx5dd68p10u/wish/444235813 Mediator between Prospero and his brother Antonio/the king of Naples (The marriage between Ferdinand and Miranda) https://padlet.com/eleanom/8dx5dd68p10u/wish/444236475 2020-02-12 10:24:40 UTC https://padlet.com/eleanom/8dx5dd68p10u/wish/444236475 Act 3, scene 2 https://padlet.com/eleanom/8dx5dd68p10u/wish/444236677 - Caliban suggests ways of killing Prospero, and it seems like he has thought about this before]]> 2020-02-12 10:25:21 UTC https://padlet.com/eleanom/8dx5dd68p10u/wish/444236677 Act 5, scene 1, line 33 onwards https://padlet.com/eleanom/8dx5dd68p10u/wish/444237002 Magic represented as something bad for the people who are enslaved (good for Prospero), - link to colonialism? 

-Parallell between magic being the intellectual people's knowledge/western knowledge (Prospero's magic) - his magic comes from books. If one destroys this, one destroys the magic. 
 - Caliban's magic being the natives' knowledge, knowledge of nature etc.]]> 2020-02-12 10:26:21 UTC https://padlet.com/eleanom/8dx5dd68p10u/wish/444237002 https://padlet.com/eleanom/8dx5dd68p10u/wish/444237027 Prospero uses everyone as pieces in his game, just like chess. The last scene displays Ferdinand and Miranda playing chess when Prospero draws aside a curtain (scene 5.1. 172)]]> 2020-02-12 10:26:27 UTC https://padlet.com/eleanom/8dx5dd68p10u/wish/444237027 1.2, 362-362 https://padlet.com/eleanom/8dx5dd68p10u/wish/444237211 Caliban to Prospero: 'You taught me language, and my profit on't Is I know how to curse.'
- language as power (prevent 'rebellion', colonialism)
- benefit to Caliban, not foreseen by Prospero

1.2, 368-370
Prospero to Caliban: ' What I command, I'll rack thee with old cramps, Fill all thy bones with aches, make thee roar, That beasts shall tremble at thy din.'
- Prospero display of power over Caliban (slave) through language

2.1, 142-163
Gonzalo's speech about the Commonwealth.
- negative language = negative focus (what the Commonwealth will NOT be rather than what it will be)
- alliteration ('no', 'none', etc.)

4.1, 146-163
Prospero's monologue
- Metatheatricality (the whole monologue is an analogy for a play)
- reminds the audience that they are watching a play

Shakespeare in general:
- poetic language]]> 2020-02-12 10:26:56 UTC https://padlet.com/eleanom/8dx5dd68p10u/wish/444237211 Example of Miranda standing up for herself https://padlet.com/eleanom/8dx5dd68p10u/wish/444237293 Scene 1.2 (350-361)
Miranda does have a voice and stands up for herself against Caliban. However, she is still just a piece in the puzzle, not a feminist character....]]> 2020-02-12 10:27:12 UTC https://padlet.com/eleanom/8dx5dd68p10u/wish/444237293 https://padlet.com/eleanom/8dx5dd68p10u/wish/444238188 Act 3, scene 2. Line 38]]> 2020-02-12 10:30:24 UTC https://padlet.com/eleanom/8dx5dd68p10u/wish/444238188 Comic relief https://padlet.com/eleanom/8dx5dd68p10u/wish/444238682 The subplot brings comic relief to the play, making the play less dramatic and serious. Portraying the characters as drunk and unaware makes the play more amusing]]> 2020-02-12 10:32:21 UTC https://padlet.com/eleanom/8dx5dd68p10u/wish/444238682 https://padlet.com/eleanom/8dx5dd68p10u/wish/444240467 Act 1 scene 2 line 330

Caliban tells how he showed the island to P and how he took it from him "with his magic" 

]]> 2020-02-12 10:37:56 UTC https://padlet.com/eleanom/8dx5dd68p10u/wish/444240467 the theme of treason https://padlet.com/eleanom/8dx5dd68p10u/wish/444241462 Caliban's, Stephano's and Trinculo's comical interaction have artistic significance for major dramatic themes such as treason]]> 2020-02-12 10:41:04 UTC https://padlet.com/eleanom/8dx5dd68p10u/wish/444241462 The way the subplot ends (Prospero ridiculing them, but releasing them from his trap) shows Prospero's character as a hero capable of forgiveness https://padlet.com/eleanom/8dx5dd68p10u/wish/444243478 2020-02-12 10:46:23 UTC https://padlet.com/eleanom/8dx5dd68p10u/wish/444243478 https://padlet.com/eleanom/8dx5dd68p10u/wish/444243487 - Prospero wearing a 'masque' links him to knowledge of ancient civilisation, ]]> 2020-02-12 10:46:24 UTC https://padlet.com/eleanom/8dx5dd68p10u/wish/444243487