Tempest: Ariel
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- Created on: 21-05-22 17:24
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- Ariel
- Past Productions
- Ariel spits at Prospero as he bids him farewell. Beale 1993
- Ariel played by a woman dressed as a young boy. Boyd 2002
- Ariel flies in on a wire wearing fairy costume, singing enchantedly. Macready 1838
- Critics
- Freedom
- "An elemental spirit robbed of freedom and tortured by the loss" - Coleridge
- "Ariel is driven by an internal cry for freedom" - Taylor Sharpe
- Forgiveness
- "The crucial figure in the play, the agent of reconciliation and redemption, was Ariel" - Orgel
- Instrument, power, entrapment
- "Ariel is the sole agent of Prospero's magic" - Johnson
- "Ariel's adoption of female costume portrays the feminine compliance that Prospero demands" - Sanchez
- gender
- "Passively accepts Prospero's right to rule over him" - Williams
- Ethereal, opposite of Caliban
- "Shakespeare has stripped from Caliban what is ethereal and refined, and compounded them into Ariel" - Lindely
- Freedom
- Themes
- Freedom and entrapment
- Love
- A4,S1 "Do you love me, master?"
- "my chick" "My Ariel"
- Revenge and forgiveness
- Magic
- Power
- Instrument
- A1S2 "to thy strong bidding, task Ariel"
- Gender
- Key moments
- A3,S3 appears as harpy
- A3,S3 "You are three men of sin"
- Vengeance, judgement, punishment
- A5,S1 Persuades Prospero to forgive the men
- A5,S1 "The rarer action is/ in virtue rather than vengeance"
- "affections would become tender"
- "Mine would, sir, were I human."
- "Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling of their afflictions, and shall not myself... be kindlier moved than thou art?"
- A5S1 Ariel is freed
- Act 1 Scene 2 Ariel returns from shipwrecking
- freedom, entrapment, love, instrument
- A3,S3 appears as harpy
- Past Productions
- Instrument, power, entrapment
- "Ariel is the sole agent of Prospero's magic" - Johnson
- "Ariel's adoption of female costume portrays the feminine compliance that Prospero demands" - Sanchez
- gender
- "Passively accepts Prospero's right to rule over him" - Williams
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