Tempest: Ariel

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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
    • 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
  • 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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