![]() ![]() With raven's feather from unwholesome fenĪnd blister you all o'er!" Act 1, Scene 2, lines 321 - 324. They rouse him from his dwelling and he curses them: Caliban's hut is off to one of the sides of the stage. Prospero awakens Miranda and they to visit Caliban. ![]() Ariel is promised freedom in two days if he completes his commands. Ariel thanks Prospero for freeing him from his imprisonment and Prospero threatens him with twelve more years of imprisonment is he complains any more. Prospero asks him about her, finding out that she was born in Algiers and was a terrible sorceress who came to the island with a child, Caliban. Prospero reminds him that he freed him from his cell, in which he had been placed by Sycorax, the former ruler of the island. To bate me a full year." Act 1, Scene 2, lines 246 - 250. Told thee no lies, made no mistakes, served Remember I have done thee worthy service, Prospero prepares to order more, but Ariel reminds him that he has been promised his freedom: Ariel also tells Prospero that no one was wounded and that the ship itself is safe, its mariners sleeping. He relays that the King's son, Ferdinand leapt up and shouted: "Hell is empty/ And all the devils are here" Act 1, Scene 2, lines 213 - 214. He caused the storm and then the ship-wreck. He reports that he has accomplished everything which his master bid him. He uses his magic to make Miranda go to sleep and he calls his spirit servant Ariel to him. She then asks her father why he has raised the storm and he tells her that by chance his enemies have come near the island and he has shipwrecked them to get his revenge. Miranda exclaims "Would I might/ But ever see that man!" Act 1, Scene 2, lines 168 - 169. The pair were furnished with food, clothing and Prospero's books by the good councillor, Gonzalo. A few sympathetic ministers helped the fallen duke and his child to a boat, which carried them to the island. With the support of the King of Naples, his brother raised an army and expelled him from the dukedom with his daughter. Miranda remarks that "good wombs have borne bad sons." Act 1, Scene 2, line 120. His brother made an alliance with the King of Naples. ![]() Once his brother learned how to manage the state and Prospero himself had been detached from worldly affairs, a change took place:Īs my trust was, which had, indeed, no limit,Ī confidence sans bound." Act 1, Scene 2, lines 91 - 96.įor Prospero, his "Library/ /Was dukedom large enough" Act 1, Scene 2, lines 109 - 110, but his brother thought him to be incapable of ruling. He had become entrenched in studies of the secret arts and put his brother in control of the affairs of state. She asks what events transpired to bring them to the island, and he relays the tale. He tells her that they have been on the island for twelve years and that he was once the Duke of Milan. Miranda says that she remembers her life before the island as if it were a dream. He asks "Canst thou remember/ A time before we came unto this cell?" Act 1, Scene 2, lines 38 - 39. Prospero decides that now is the time to inform his daughter of what he has been hiding since they came to the island. ![]() He reminds her that everything has been done for her. Prospero tells his daughter to be calm, because no harm has come to its passengers. She asks Prospero to calm the sea, if he has, by any means, stirred up the storm in which she watched the ship perish. In an island hut, Prospero, brother of Antonio and the rightful duke of Milan, is speaking with his daughter, Miranda. ![]()
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