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change in fortune from good to bad (high point then an experiences something that causes a fall) in the audience we feel pity and fear. fear that it could happen to us. pity for the person that falls. for pity to exist, the character's misfortune must be undeserved Othello Othello because he goes from high ranking military officer even though he was black he was respected. looses his sanity-kills wife and himself. |
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tragedy involves a reversal arising from a tragic mistake (hamartia) that befalls a good man and ends in recognition causing a catharsis in the audience Othello Othello-tragic mistake is listening to Iago and basing his decisions on a lack of proof which to his killing of Desdemona. his recognition is when he is told that Desdemona was faithful. he then kills himself. |
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rediscovery by tragic hero of an essential quality that he forgot about while making his tragic mistake. pity and fear is purged from the audience. left with a feeling of elation. Othello Othello-tragic hero. forgets about his sanity. he is a reasonable man being unreasonable. pity and fear disappear when he realizes this. |
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a missing of the mark. shoots at unobtainable thing and misses. but the thing they were aiming for was good in itself. Othello and King Lear Othello-aiming to be civilized in white society (wanting to fit in) buthe would never be able to because he was a moor. King Lear- Tragic mistake was dividing his kingdom and giving up crown |
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pity and fear leave the audience to feel elated. this is why we see tragedies Othello Othello- looses his sanity but realizes this. the audience is elated to find out that he Othello has recongized his downfall. (big picture) |
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in abilty to compromise with themselves or with society. excess of a virtue. too much idealism is impractical. aspiration to love that way is inspiring. these characters will not be compromised. Othello Othello-completely loves Desdemona or cannot love her at all. he has to either fully believe she is faithful or he fully believes she is not. |
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geographical movement. movement from order to disorder no movement back to order (not a happy ending) instead of being beneficial, it destroys the protagonist. Boy meets girl plot-boy and girl meet but there is some outside force, usually the father, that prevents them from being together. typically results in death. Othello Othello-outsider trying to fit into an alien culture. this is impossible for a Moor (barbarian) to become a ventian. beyond human capacity. |
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A place of order, civilization, rational, and senate Othello Venice |
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outside city is disorder where robbery happens. outpost of fringe of civilization Othello the island of Cyprus |
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in literature when nature responds to the emotions of a character. King Lear Thunder and King Lear- on the grange/heath when he is going mad. the recognition of his madness is shown in his actions and is aided by his addition of thunder |
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in literature, the good SHOULD be rewarded and bad SHOULD be punished King Lear/The Tempest Edgar and Albany follow poetic justice. Edgar wins battle against Edmond. Albany give power back to the rightful king, Lear. Tempest-Ariel |
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an adventerous journey that takes characters away from the real world into a super natural world. differnt from a comedy b.c truely perilous events occur. Death could/does occur alienation and reconciliatio. tragic structure, yet, happy ending. father daughter relationship. focuses on a rise to power. The Tempest Prospero- rises to power again. leaves milan and causes problems so that he can take his rightful position |
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Reading of dramatist as subject. the playwrite creates play using facotrs of his real life. The Tempest Prospero- everything must come to an end. his plot to get everyone to the island and then himself back to Milan. his life as happy endinging (everyone gets what they want)."the globe" can be looked at as the Globe Theater. Last play Shakespeare wrote made everything come to a good end in play as he may have wanted for his life. |
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Conscious psyche that houses instinctive desires and passions The Tempest Caliban-acts without thinking. tries to rape miranda. gets drunk. uncivilized native to the island. actions are based on primal desires. |
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Conscious self. Associated with reason The Tempest Prospero-the voice of reason. he devises plans to gain his power back. he is in control of what is going on especially with himself and his daughter as well as Ariel. |
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largely unconscious idea of ones self. what you are aspiring to be The Tempest Ariel- takes orders from Prospero and aims to please him. |
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Soft you; a word or two before you go. I have done the state some service, and they know't.
No more of that. I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate,
Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak
Of one that loved not wisely but too well; Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought
Perplex'd in the extreme; of one whose hand,Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away
Richer than all his tribe; of one whose subdued eyes, Albeit unused to the melting mood,
Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees Their medicinal gum. Set you down this;
And say besides, that in Aleppo once,Where a malignant and a turban'd Turk
Beat a Venetian and traduced the state,I took by the throat the circumcised dog,
And smote him, thus. |
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Othello 1. Super-idealism common in tragic characters. inability to compromise with himslef or society. he loved Desdemona to the excess. he could only completely love her or think she is a whore (only 2 choices.) 2. Tragic green-world movement: Othello, a moor, tried to adapt to Venetian culture. it was beyond his human capacity to fit it.he was an outsider trying to fit into an alien culture. |
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A maiden never bold;
Of spirit so still and quiet, that her motion
Blush'd at herself; and she, in spite of nature,
Of years, of country, credit, every thing,
To fall in love with what she fear'd to look on!
It is a judgment maim'd and most imperfect
That will confess perfection so could err
Against all rules of nature, and must be driven
To find out practises of cunning hell,
Why this should be. I therefore vouch again
That with some mixtures powerful o'er the blood,
Or with some dram conjured to this effect,
He wrought upon her |
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Brabantio 1.Saying that in Venice, rationality overruled passion. Desdemona was Venitian, therefore thought logically. 2. since that is true, She would never go with Othello because it was irrational, therefore, he must have drugged her. the senate would not hear of irrationality. |
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And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her,
I should but teach him how to tell my story.
And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake:
She loved me for the dangers I had pass'd,
And I loved her that she did pity them.
This only is the witchcraft I have used:
Here comes the lady; let her witness it |
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Othello 1. why Desdemona fell in love with Othello. the only witchcraft he used was his stories and she fell for them. it was rational thinking because they were still in Venice. 2. Desdemona gives Othello the 'hint' that she loves him. Desdemona knew how to cleverly tell Othello that she loved him. She told him she was interested. it wasnt necessarly Othello she loved but anyone that told the story she would loveDesdemona is deceptive! she said she loved the danger. will come thorugh in cyprus. |
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Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see:
She has deceived her father, and may thee. |
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Brabantio 1. the second time Desdemona is decietful. Othello is warned that she can deceive him just as easily as she deceived her father. 2. Othello does not believe this, which is ok, but it foreshadows the deceit by Iago. this quote puts it in Othello's head that desdemona might be decietful |
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Now, by heaven,
My blood begins my safer guides to rule;
And passion, having my best judgment collied,
Assays to lead the way: if I once stir,
Or do but lift this arm, the best of you
Shall sink in my rebuke. Give me to know
How this foul rout began, who set it on;
And he that is approved in this offence,
Though he had twinn'd with me, both at a birth,
Shall lose me. What! in a town of war,
Yet wild, the people's hearts brimful of fear,
To manage private and domestic quarrel,
In night, and on the court and guard of safety!
'Tis monstrous. Iago, who began't? |
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Othello 1. Othello becomes overwhelmed by what Iago says about Cassio. Passion wants to control his emotions. Reason is contained by emotion. starting toloose his cool. 2. This occurs in Cyprus, may not have occured in Venice because there is no order in Cyprus, the grange. |
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Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul,
But I do love thee! and when I love thee not,
Chaos is come again. |
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Othello 1. Othello admits how strong his love for Desdemona is. he says that he can never stop loving her. and that if he ever did, chaos would result. Claims he will go to hell if he stops loving her. othello changed from warrior to lover when he moved to Cyprus. he became irrational, as opposed to his rationality in Venice. (superidealism) 2. tragic-Green world movement. they are in the grange, Cyprus, where chaos and disorder are inevitable. |
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Why, why is this? Think'st thou I'ld make a lie of jealousy,
To follow still the changes of the moon
With fresh suspicions? No; to be once in doubt
Is once to be resolved: exchange me for a goat,
When I shall turn the business of my soul
To such exsufflicate and blown surmises,
Matching thy inference. 'Tis not to make me jealous
To say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company,
Is free of speech, sings, plays and dances well;
Where virtue is, these are more virtuous:
Nor from mine own weak merits will I draw
The smallest fear or doubt of her revolt;
For she had eyes, and chose me. No, Iago;
I'll see before I doubt; when I doubt, prove;
And on the proof, there is no more but this, Away at once with love or jealousy |
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Othello 1. lives his life 'rationally' on proof, but what you see can be deceptive as well. he either loves her fully or is jealous and hates the slightest doubt will cause him to hate her. 2. recognition-if he realized here that Desdemona was pure everything would be ok. but he does not recongize here which completes the Aristilian Tragedy. |
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Lie with her! lie on her! We say lie on her, when
they belie her. Lie with her! that's fulsome.
—Handkerchief—confessions—handkerchief!—To
confess, and be hanged for his labour;—first, to be
hanged, and then to confess.—I tremble at it.
Nature would not invest herself in such shadowing
passion without some instruction. It is not words
that shake me thus. Pish! Noses, ears, and lips.
—Is't possible?—Confess—handkerchief!—O devil!— |
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Othello 1. Othello is havign a 'fit' that is not to be understood. his thoughts are irrational.him in the process of making tragic mistake by listening to Iago. 2. the chaos of Othello's language is representative of the chaos of the body language (since desemona did not sleep w. Cassio) |
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My lord, this would not be believed in Venice,
Though I should swear I saw't: 'tis very much:
Make her amends; she weeps. |
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Lodovico 1. Contrast between the rationality of Venice and irrationality of Cyprus. things that occur in Cyprus would never happen in Venice. Disbelief Othello has hit his wife. this is something he would never have done in Venice because he was a good, well respected man. Now, he is irrational is manipualted to the point that he is completely influenced by others. 2. new warrior insticts emerge |
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Soft you; a word or two before you go.
I have done the state some service, and they know't.
No more of that. I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well;
Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought Perplex'd in the extreme; of one whose hand, Like the base Judean threw a pearl away Richer than all his tribe; of one whose subdued eyes, Albeit unused to the melting mood,Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees Their medicinal gum. Set you down this;
And say besides, that in Aleppo once, Where a malignant and a turban'd Turk
Beat a Venetian and traduced the state, I took by the throat the circumcised dog, And smote him, thus. |
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Othello 1. Compares himself to Jews/Indians who were not believers and gave away their valuables. he lost his jewl-Desdemona. Barbaric act as a result of Iago's influence. 2. Othello as a tragic hero because he realizes he cannot adapt to Venitian culture, he will always be different because he is a moor. realization that he is different superidealism. |
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[To IAGO] O Spartan dog,
More fell than anguish, hunger, or the sea!
Look on the tragic loading of this bed;
This is thy work: the object poisons sight;
Let it be hid. Gratiano, keep the house,
And seize upon the fortunes of the Moor,
For they succeed on you. To you, lord governor,
Remains the censure of this hellish villain;
The time, the place, the torture: O, enforce it!
Myself will straight aboard: and to the state
This heavy act with heavy heart relate. |
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Lodovico 1. Lodovico moves back towards Venice but there is no recognition (learning from the story) 2. the same people do not return back. they were overcome with irrationality and death. Tragic Green world movement won. |
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Love Test-Gives Cordelia's land to Sons-in-law |
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1. gives over kingship through name and cermony 2. lost sight of what makes him king. dividing land is bad, it divides kingdom as well. |
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'Tis the infirmity of his age; yet he hath ever but slenderly
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Regan 1. Lear as tragic hero who lost sight of his position as king 2. Daughters take his possessions. did not truely love him. lied during love test. |
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Put on what weary negligence you please,
You and your fellows. I'd have it come to question.
If he distaste it, let him to our sister,
Whose mind and mine I know in that are one,
Not to be overrul'd. Idle old man,
That still would manage those authorities
That he hath given away! Now, by my life,
Old fools are babes again, and must be us'd
With checks as flatteries, when they are seen abus'd.
Remember what I have said. |
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Goneril 1. King Lear still wants to act as king without power (responsibilty). give up power while retaining it. 2. Old fool- trusts daughters but does not realize they despise him. 3. he has reverted to what it was like when he was a child. becomes depended on others again. 4. harsh laws of Lear's eldest daughters. |
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Those wicked creatures yet do look well-favour'd
When others are more wicked; not being the worst
Stands in some rank of praise. [To Goneril] I'll go with thee.
Thy fifty yet doth double five-and-twenty,
And thou art twice her love. |
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Lear thinks Goneril loves him more because she will let him have more servants. 1. ties love to quantity 2. everyone needs to have more things than they need in order to keep their dignity. 3. cannot come to power with no backup support 4. impatient- realizes this and goes into a state of madness 5. Harsh laws of daughters |
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Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!
You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout
Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks!
You sulph'rous and thought-executing fires,
Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts,
Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder,
Strike flat the thick rotundity o' th' world,
Crack Nature's moulds, all germains spill at once,
That makes ingrateful man! |
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Lear 1. escape into heath-desolate land. here he calls upon the forces of nature and his emotions of anger, pride, and guilt come out 2. recognition of his responsibilities of king. this is tragic, as it leads/plays into his madness. |
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Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are,
That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,
How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides,
Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you
From seasons such as these? O, I have ta'en
Too little care of this! Take physic, pomp;
Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel,
That thou mayst shake the superflux to them
And show the heavens more just. |
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Lear 1. realizes he should take care of his people. sees what it is like to live as a poor person-exposes himself to feel how poor people do 2. escape into the green heath |
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Why, thou wert better in thy grave than to answer with thy
uncover'd body this extremity of the skies. Is man no more than
this? Consider him well. Thou ow'st the worm no silk, the beast
no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha! Here's three
on's are sophisticated! Thou art the thing itself;
unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked
animal as thou art. Off, off, you lendings! Come, unbutton
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Lear 1. he is no longer like a man. he is more an animal. 2. audience can experience catharsis because Lear realizes he is ahuman being with responsibilities. he is better off this way but it is hisdownfall. 3. Madness allows his tragic recognition. |
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Brother, I advise you to the best. Go arm'd. I am no honest man
if there be any good meaning toward you. I have told you what I
have seen and heard; but faintly, nothing like the image and
horror of it. Pray you, away |
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Edmond 1. character of the fool 2. Edmond says Father and brother expect no harm because they are so good. this makes it easy for bad people to take advantage of good people=foolish |
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Fool 1. fool makes connection between foolishness and loyalty by offering Kent his 'fools hat' 2. Kents loyalty to Lear is foolish because Lear is on his way to his demise. 3. Loyalty and devotion do not always succeed. 4. good is not always rewarded. bad is not always punished. |
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This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are
sick in fortune, often the surfeit of our own behaviour, we make
guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if
we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion;
knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical pre-dominance;
drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforc'd obedience of
planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine
thrusting on. An admirable evasion of whore-master man, to lay
his goatish disposition to the charge of a star! My father
compounded with my mother under the Dragon's Tail, and my
nativity was under Ursa Major, so that it follows I am rough and
lecherous. Fut! I should have been that I am, had the
maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing.
Edgar- [Enter Edgar.] and pat! he comes, like the catastrophe of the old comedy. My cue is villainous melancholy, with a sigh like Tom o' Bedlam.
O, these eclipses do portend these divisions! Fa, sol, la, mi. |
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Edmund 1. Humans are responsible for their own fate. 2. thinks it is stupid to blame stars/moon/astrology/etc. for our own actions. 3. men are stupid to think the gods effect our actions. this is just a way of justifying our actions. |
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You heavens, give me that patience, patience I need!
You see me here, you gods, a poor old man,
As full of grief as age; wretched in both.
If it be you that stirs these daughters' hearts
Against their father, fool me not so much
To bear it tamely; touch me with noble anger,
And let not women's weapons, water drops,
Stain my man's cheeks! No, you unnatural hags!
I will have such revenges on you both
That all the world shall- I will do such things-
What they are yet, I know not; but they shall be
The terrors of the earth! You think I'll weep.
No, I'll not weep.
I have full cause of weeping, but this heart
Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws
Or ere I'll weep. O fool, I shall go mad! |
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Lear 1. Gods actively intervene inhuman affairs. 2. wants god to intervene to help him. prayers are not answered, but storms are some form of gods presence. |
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He has some reason, else he could not beg.
I' th' last night's storm I such a fellow saw,
Which made me think a man a worm. My son
Came then into my mind, and yet my mind
Was then scarce friends with him. I have heard more since.
As flies to wanton boys are we to th' gods.
They kill us for their sport. |
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Gloucester 1. Gods are actively malevolent and cruel 2. boys that torture flies are what the gods like 3. they are watching humans suffer |
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As I stood here below, methought his eyes
Were two full moons; he had a thousand noses,Horns whelk'd and wav'd like the enridged sea.
It was some fiend. Therefore, thou happy father,
Think that the clearest gods, who make them honours Of men's impossibility, have preserv'd thee |
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Edgar 1. gods follow poetic justice (everything ends up right) 2.edgar wants his father to believe the gods are good |
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He hath commission from thy wife and me
To hang Cordelia in the prison and
To lay the blame upon her own despair
That she fordid herself |
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Edmund 1. the gods should defend Cordelia -juxtaposition 2. complicates the idea that the gods are just |
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That's but a trifle here.
You lords and noble friends, know our intent.
What comfort to this great decay may come
Shall be applied. For us, we will resign,
During the life of this old Majesty,
To him our absolute power; [to Edgar and Kent] you to your
rights;
With boot, and such addition as your honours
Have more than merited.- All friends shall taste
The wages of their virtue, and all foes
The cup of their deservings.- O, see, see! |
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Albany 1. albany will give power to rightful King Lear BUT not poetic justice because Lear dies. 2.Back to unaccomodating man |
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This feather stirs; she lives! If it be so,
It is a chance which does redeem all sorrows
That ever I have felt |
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Lear 1. over joy of Cordelia coming back into his life kills him 2. she is there to redeem him. he can die and she can take over *catharsis |
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Tis time
I should inform thee farther. Lend thy hand,
And pluck my magic garment from me. So:
[Lays down his mantle]
Lie there, my art. Wipe thou thine eyes; have comfort.
The direful spectacle of the wreck, which touch'd
The very virtue of compassion in thee,
I have with such provision in mine art
So safely ordered that there is no soul—
No, not so much perdition as an hair
Betid to any creature in the vessel
Which thou heard'st cry, which thou saw'st sink. Sit down;
For thou must now know farther. |
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Prospero 1. powers as an art:artist 2. dramatist orders play, prospero controls people of the island |
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Hast thou, spirit,
Perform'd to point the tempest that I bade thee? |
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Prospero 1. language- dramatic production, play 2. speaks of storm as performance 3. ass |
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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. |
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Caliban as natural desire 1. in touch with nature 2. Sexual desire (rape of Miranda). this is instinctive, like an animal |
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Then, as my gift and thine own acquisition
Worthily purchased take my daughter: but
If thou dost break her virgin-knot before
All sanctimonious ceremonies may
With full and holy rite be minister'd,
No sweet aspersion shall the heavens let fall
To make this contract grow: but barren hate,
Sour-eyed disdain and discord shall bestrew
The union of your bed with weeds so loathly
That you shall hate it both: therefore take heed,
As Hymen's lamps shall light you page 65 also |
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Prospero the id must control the ego 1. everyone has an evil spirit 2. Prospero reminds Ferdinand three times 3. Prospero's own sexual desires in check 4. Caliban's rape attempt is coming from dramatist |
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What is't? a spirit?
Lord, how it looks about! Believe me, sir,
It carries a brave form. But 'tis a spirit. OR I might call him
A thing divine, for nothing natural
I ever saw so noble |
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Miranda Ferdinand as Prospero's revenge 1. wants to have Ferdinand and Miranda marry so he is back in royalty 2. Miranda thinks Ferdinand is a apirit 3. Lifting of curtain is meeting of Ferdinand --this is like the opening of a play |
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You cram these words into mine ears against
The stomach of my sense. Would I had never
Married my daughter there! for, coming thence,
My son is lost and, in my rate, she too,
Who is so far from Italy removed
I ne'er again shall see her. O thou mine heir
Of Naples and of Milan, what strange fish
Hath made his meal on thee? |
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Alonso 1. loss of son punishes Alonso 2. Alonso feels he lost daughter 3. Loss doubles because he thinks he lost son 4. Ferdinand-control of naples and Milan |
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O, it is monstrous, monstrous:
Methought the billows spoke and told me of it;
The winds did sing it to me, and the thunder,
That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounced
The name of Prosper: it did bass my trespass.
Therefore my son i' the ooze is bedded, and
I'll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded
And with him there lie mudded |
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Alonso 1. feels a great sense of guilt 2. underlined my sin, which is why son lost life 3. Alsonso says he will drown himself to be with Ferdinand |
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They cannot budge till your release. The king,
His brother and yours, abide all three distracted
And the remainder mourning over them,
Brimful of sorrow and dismay; but chiefly
Him that you term'd, sir, 'The good old lord Gonzalo;'
His tears run down his beard, like winter's drops
From eaves of reeds. Your charm so strongly works 'em
That if you now beheld them, your affections
Would become tender. |
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Ariel 1. Strong charm 2. suggests to Prospero that he can imagine feelings Policeman of psyche-conscious |
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Yet with my nobler reason 'gaitist my fury
Do I take part: the rarer action is
In virtue than in vengeance: they being penitent,
The sole drift of my purpose doth extend
Not a frown further. Go release them, Ariel:
My charms I'll break, their senses I'll restore,
And they shall be themselves. |
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Prospero 1. ordering his own passions 2. reason sides with forgiveness 3. passion sides with vengence. |
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Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves, And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune and do fly him
When he comes back; you demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites, and you whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoice To hear the solemn curfew; by whose aid, Weak masters though ye be, I have bedimm'd The noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds, And 'twixt the green sea and the azured vault Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt; the strong-based promontory Have I made shake and by the spurs pluck'd up The pine and cedar: graves at my command Have waked their sleepers, oped, and let 'em forth By my so potent art. But this rough magic I here abjure, and, when I have required Some heavenly music, which even now I do, To work mine end upon their senses that This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And deeper than did ever plummet sound I'll drown my book |
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Prospero 1. as he forgives, he wants audience to forgive him for faults in production as they should be forgiven by God. 3 steps to forgiveness 2. no more charms-given up his magic (when he breaks staff) 3. wonders if he achieves anything substancial. |
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You do look, my son, in a moved sort, As if you were dismay'd: be cheerful, sir. ur revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Ye all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep. Sir, I am vex'd;
Bear with my weakness; my, brain is troubled:
Be not disturb'd with my infirmity:
If you be pleased, retire into my cell
And there repose: a turn or two I'll walk,
To still my beating mind |
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Prospero 1. lesson of the play-no sex before marrage 2. end of the play is end of Shakespeare career. everything vanishes in play, everything will vanish in life the globe theater 3. people are illusions; our own life. we are what dreams of made of. sleep of non-existance, sleep of death. |
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