Tempest Critics

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Grindlay
the women's identities are forged by the language the male characters used to describe them
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Grindlay
all of the terrible hellish language used to describe Sycorax comes from Prospero
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Grindlay
magic in the hands of the male character is a thing of awe and wonder, but in the hands of a woman is it represents dangerous empowerment
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Grindlay
Sycorax connotes female autonomy and independence
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Grindlay
Profound male anxieties about the power that comes with a women's ability to bare a child
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Blystone
As a women, Sycorax is weaker more evil and more sexually deviant
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Loomba
Prospero uses language of misogony as well as racism
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Berry
Caliban is the other and Prospero has control over him through language
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Griffiths
Caliban is lost without the civilising influence exerted on him by Prospero
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Coleridge
Caliban is a noble being
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Greenblat
[the island] serves as an experimental space for testing the ethics of authority
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Devlin
Caliban shows the white mans attitude towards the indigenous population
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Green
Through magic and control of characters Prospero takes on an almost saditic quality
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Rolfe
Miranda is the ideal maiden, a child of virtue
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O'Brien
theirs is not the wild passion of Romeo and Juliet
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Grindlay
Miranda is a pawn in a game to gain ultimate control
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Howard
marriage is the goal of every Shakespeare play
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Thompson
The pay denies the importance and even in some cases the presence of female characters
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Todd
Trinculo's role is combining with Stephano to provide comic relief
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Tanner
The real monsters of the island are Sebastian and Antonio
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Moseley
In this scene Stephano and Trinculo are more repulsive than Caliban
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Pester
Reversal of stereotypes [Caliban and Stephano]
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Poole
[Antonio and Sebastian] Civilisation has only case hardened their selfishness
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Dijkhuizen
Masques serve as images of order, peace and harmony... the anti-masque offers an image of vice and disorder
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Dijkhuizen
The masque invokes Shakespeare's theme of life as an illusion
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Hebron
The play is not attacking marriage but suggesting that it tests our humanity
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Hebron
[Prospero renouncing his marriage] is a necessary step to resuming his worldly duty as duke
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Riches
Prospero has a liberating transformation through journeying and suffering
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Riches
Such honesty and self-realisation is more admirable than the most awful magic
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Orgel
Prospero's monologue in Act 5 is the most powerful assertion of magic that the play gives us
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Ledingham
Having relinquished his power we see him reduced to the level of an ordinary mortal
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Ledingham
Prospero is a fundamentally enigmatic creation whose true self is largely concealed
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all of the terrible hellish language used to describe Sycorax comes from Prospero

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magic in the hands of the male character is a thing of awe and wonder, but in the hands of a woman is it represents dangerous empowerment

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Sycorax connotes female autonomy and independence

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Profound male anxieties about the power that comes with a women's ability to bare a child

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