The Tempest - Ariel
- Created by: Phoebe
- Created on: 07-04-14 11:05
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- Ariel
- Christian Renaissance reading
- Prospero seen as a God figure
- Ariel takes Prospero from a revengeful Old Testament God to the New Testament who is more giving and understanding
- Ariel - restorer
- Prospero seen as a God figure
- Colonial reading
- Prospero is the master, Ariel the slave
- "my slave" - Prospero
- "my noble master" - Ariel
- Submissive character - "I have done thee worthy service"
- "served without grudge or grumblings"
- Flatters Prospero - "all hail, great master"
- First thing Ariel says - first impression
- Only true native of the island
- Kept away from Caliban - only speaks to him when he pretends to be Trinculo - "thous liest!"
- Prospero is the master, Ariel the slave
- Ability to transform
- Aware of his ability/ power
- Associate with ability to empathise - changes to understand others
- Illusory powers - are his powers just an illusion?
- Highlights Prospero's brutality
- Difference in language between Sycorax's actions and Prospero's threats
- Prospero - "rend an oak" "peg thee in his knotty entrails" "howled"
- Sycorax - "did confine thee" "groans"
- Irrational reaction to Ariel asking for his "liberty"
- Leads audience to question the treatment of Caliban
- Difference in language between Sycorax's actions and Prospero's threats
- Role of humanity
- Refused to do Sycorax's "earthy and abhorred commands"
- Prospero uses his "noble reason" instead of "fury" because of Ariel - "mine would sir, were I human"
- Necessary to Prospero's power
- Prospero vows to "retire" and "break (his) staff" once he loses Ariel
- Used in all Prospero's illusions - Harpy scene, the Masque, the Tempest
- Christian Renaissance reading
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