Resourcestempest

Extract Two
Prospero, Ariel and Caliban

Consider Prospero's treatment of Ariel

PROSPERO Hast thou, spirit,
Perform'd to point the tempest that I bade
thee?

ARIEL To every article.

PROSPERO My brave spirit!
Who was so firm, so constant, that this coil
Would not infect his reason?

ARIEL Not a soul
But felt a fever of the mad and play'd
Some tricks of desperation.

PROSPERO Why that's my spirit!

Now compare this to Prospero's treatment of Caliban below

PROSPERO What, ho! slave! Caliban!
Thou earth, thou! speak.
CALIBAN
[Within] There's wood enough within.
PROSPERO
Come forth, I say! there's other business for
thee:
Come, thou tortoise! When?
Thou poisonous slave, got by the devil himself
Upon thy wicked dam, come forth!

Extract Three
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Prospero and Ariel 2

PROSPERO
Ariel, thy charge
Exactly is perform'd: but there's more work.
ARIEL

Is there more toil? Since thou dost give me pains,
Let me remember thee what thou hast promised,
Which is not yet perform'd me.
PROSPERO
How now? moody?
What is't thou canst demand?
ARIEL
My liberty.
PROSPERO
Before the time be out? no more!
ARIEL
I prithee,
Remember I have done thee worthy service;
Told thee no lies, made no mistakings, serv’d
Without grudge or grumblings: thou did promise
To bate me a full year.
PROSPERO
Dost thou forget
From what a torment I did free thee?
ARIEL
I do not, sir.
PROSPERO
Thou liest, malignant thing! Hast thou forgot
The foul witch Sycorax, who with age and envy
Was grown into a hoop? Hast thou forgot her?

Extract four

Prospero and Caliban

PROSPERO
What, ho! slave! Caliban!
Thou earth, thou! speak.
CALIBAN
[Within] There's wood enough within.
PROSPERO
Come forth, I say! there's other business for thee:
Come, thou tortoise! When?
Thou poisonous slave, got by the devil himself
Upon thy wicked dam, come forth!

Enter CALIBAN
CALIBAN
As wicked dew as e'er my mother brush'd
With raven's feather from unwholesome fen
Drop on you both! a south-west blow on ye
And blister you all o'er!
PROSPERO
For this, be sure, to-night thou shalt have cramps,
Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up; urchins
Shall, for that vast of night that they may work,
All exercise on thee; thou shalt be pinch'd
As thick as honeycomb, each pinch more stinging
Than bees that made 'em.


Extract Five
Caliban's Story

CALIBAN
I must eat my dinner.
This island's mine, by Sycorax my mother,
Which thou takest from me. When thou camest first,
Thou strokedst me and madest much of me, wouldst give me
Water with berries in't, and teach me how
To name the bigger light, and how the less,
That burn by day and night: and then I loved thee
And show'd thee all the qualities o' the isle,
The fresh springs, brine-pits, barren place and fertile:
Cursed be I that did so! All the charms
Of Sycorax, toads, beetles, bats, light on you!
For I am all the subjects that you have,
Which first was mine own king: and here you sty me
In this hard rock, whiles you do keep from me
The rest o' the island.

Extract Six

Prospero's Story

PROSPERO
Thou most lying slave,
Whom stripes may move, not kindness! I have used thee,
Filth as thou art, with human care, and lodged thee
In mine own cell, till thou didst seek to violate
The honour of my child.
CALIBAN
O ho, O ho! would't had been done!
Thou didst prevent me; I had peopled else
This isle with Calibans.
PROSPERO
Abhorred slave,
Which any print of goodness wilt not take,
Being capable of all ill! I pitied thee,
Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour
One thing or other: when thou didst not, savage,
Know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like
A thing most brutish, I endow'd thy purposes
With words that made them known. But thy vile race,
Though thou didst learn, had that in't which
good natures
Could not abide to be with; therefore wast thou
Deservedly confined into this rock,
Who hadst deserved more than a prison.


Miranda

That dreadful, smelly, sulky beast has put my father in a bad temper again!
Caliban makes my skin crawl, with his lurching limbs and those eyes always
staring at me. We’ve wasted so much time on him, trying to teach him our
language and make him civilised. If it weren’t for him Caliban would still be
crawling around on all fours, grunting and living like a savage. Yet he still
insists on wearing those rags and the only language he ever uses is to insult
my dear father with his foul ingratitude. It appears that he hasn’t learnt his
lesson even after being tied to the rock.

We cared for him and even hoped that one day he would be like the brother
I never had. Instead he did something so terrible that my dear father had
to tie him to the rock and the lessons stopped. He has yet to show his
remorse and instead appears sullen and insolent in his service of us.

I can’t help but wonder what my life would be like back in Milan. Sometimes
my father will tell me of the life we lead there, the dances, the feasts,
those famous masked balls and those young gallants who would take me in
their arms and dance with me. Instead I’m stuck here with a grotesque
beast and a bad-tempered father.

I am so often alone, with my father at his books and spending hours with
Ariel who performs his tricks and makes him happy.

Don’t get me wrong, this island is full of beauty; however I must confess
that there are times when I stare at the horizon longing to see a ship’s sails
in the distance.


SCENE I. Before PROSPERO'S cell.

Enter PROSPERO in his magic robes, and ARIEL
PROSPERO
Now does my project gather to a head:
My charms crack not; my spirits obey; and time
Goes upright with his carriage. How's the day?
ARIEL
On the sixth hour; at which time, my lord,
You said our work should cease.I'll fetch them, sir.

Solemn music

Re-enter ARIEL before: then ALONSO, with a frantic gesture, attended by
GONZALO; SEBASTIAN and ANTONIO in like manner, they all enter the circle
which PROSPERO had made, and there stand charmed; which
PROSPERO
Behold, sir king,
The wronged Duke of Milan, Prospero:
For more assurance that a living prince
Does now speak to thee, I embrace thy body;
And to thee and thy company I bid
A hearty welcome.
ALONSO
Whether thou best he or no,
Or some enchanted trifle to abuse me,
As late I have been, I not know: Thy dukedom I resign and do entreat
Thou pardon me my wrongs. But how should Prospero
Be living and be here?
PROSPERO
First, noble friend,
Let me embrace thine age, whose honour cannot
Be measured or confined.
GONZALO
Whether this be
Or be not, I'll not swear.
SEBASTIAN
[Aside] The devil speaks in him.
PROSPERO
No.
For you, most wicked sir, whom to call brother
Would even infect my mouth, I do forgive
Thy rankest fault; all of them; and require


My dukedom of thee, which perforce, I know,
Thou must restore.
MIRANDA
O, wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in't!
CALIBAN
I'll be wise hereafter
And seek for grace. What a thrice-double ass
Was I, to take this drunkard for a god
And worship this dull fool!
PROSPERO
Go to; away!

Exeunt CALIBAN, STEPHANO, and TRINCULO
PROSPERO
Sir, I invite your highness and your train
To my poor cell, where you shall take your rest
For this one night; which, part of it, I'll waste
With such discourse as, I not doubt, shall make it
Go quick away; the story of my life
And the particular accidents gone by
Since I came to this isle: and in the morn
I'll bring you to your ship and so to Naples,
Where I have hope to see the nuptial
Of these our dear-beloved solemnized;
And thence retire me to my Milan, where
Every third thought shall be my grave.
ALONSO
I long
To hear the story of your life, which must
Take the ear strangely.
PROSPERO
I'll deliver all;
And promise you calm seas, auspicious gales
And sail so expeditious that shall catch
Your royal fleet far off.

Aside to ARIEL

My Ariel, chick,
That is thy charge: then to the elements
Be free, and fare thou well! Please you, draw near.

Exeunt


The Tempest
Sequencing the plot

1. Prospero and Miranda are shipwrecked on a desert island.
2. Miranda meets and falls in love with Ferdinand.
3. Ariel is imprisoned in a tree by a sorceress named Sycorax.
4. Prospero is double-crossed and usurped by his brother Antonio.
5. Prospero uses his magic powers to bring all his enemies to the island.
6. Antonio and Alonso are caught in a terrible storm on their return from
attending Alonso's daughter's wedding.
7. Gonzalo puts vital provisions in the boat for Miranda and Prospero.
8. Stephano and Trinculo, two drunken members of the castaways believe
Caliban is a god.
9. Prospero decides to forgive his brother.
10. Caliban and Ariel are given their freedom.

The Tempest
Sequencing the plot

1. Prospero and Miranda are shipwrecked on a desert island.
2. Miranda meets and falls in love with Ferdinand.
3. Ariel is imprisoned in a tree by a sorceress named Sycorax.
4. Prospero is double-crossed and usurped by his brother Antonio.
5. Prospero uses his magic powers to bring all his enemies to the island.
6. Antonio and Alonso are caught in a terrible storm on their return from
attending Alonso's daughter's wedding.
7. Gonzalo puts vital provisions in the boat for Miranda and Prospero.
8. Stephano and Trinculo, two drunken members of the castaways believe
Caliban is a god.
9. Prospero decides to forgive his brother.
10. Caliban and Ariel are given their freedom.


Caliban: Victim or Villain?

Prospero: Saint or Sinner?

Whose side are you on?

1. Caliban is the rightful ruler of the island, as he inherited it
from his mother Sycorax.

2. Prospero has tricked Caliban into being his slave.

3. Caliban is only aggressive towards Prospero because he is
treated so cruelly.

4. Caliban should be free to go wherever he pleases rather than
being cruelly shackled to a rock.

5. Caliban is a lying villain who is not to be trusted.

6. Caliban deserves all the punishments he gets for what he tried
to do to Miranda.

7. Prospero tried his best to educate Caliban; all he has received
in return has been insults.

8. Caliban must be kept a prisoner; he is incapable of behaving in a
civilised manner.

9. Caliban could never become a part of civilised society; evil is in
his nature.


ENGLISH FACULTY
Year 8 Self-Assessment Sheet

Name: Form:8

Task: Empathetic Response: A Character Monologue.

Moving Can do Can do
towards well
I can adopt a convincing style and tone
to create a character
I can experiment with figurative language
to convey character
I can take part in a class debate,
offering a clear point of view
I can

What are the strengths of your work?

What are the weaknesses of your work?

Teacher Comment

Spellings to learn: Writing Skill to
improve:

Target:
In future, I need to


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