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THE TEMPEST BY WILLIAM
SHAKESPEARE
Important quotations, discussions
of key elements in the play
and essays
Done by Eleni Baladakis, 96% for English in 2023,
achieving top 1% nationally.
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Tempest Quotes
STORM
Boatswain: “What cares these roarers for the name of the king”- shift in
power
“A tempestuous noise of thunder and lightning heard”- describing storm.
Gonzalo’s optimism “his complexion is perfect gallows”- they will not die.
RIGHT AFTER STORM= PEACE
Miranda:
o “O, the cry did Knick against my very heart”- empathetic
o “Had I been any god of power, I would have sunk the sea within the
earth.”
o “The good ship so have swallowed and the fraughing souls within
her.”
Prospero: “I have done nothing but in care of thee… my daughter”
Prospero about Miranda: “The very virtue of compassion in thee”
Prospero is “a prince of power” . “Thy father was the duke of Milan and a
prince of power.”
o “rapt in secret studies”
Prospero about Antonio “in my false Brother awakes an evil nature.”
Prospero: “In the dark backward and abysm of time”
Prospero: “The Liberal Arts… being all my study, the government I cast
upon my brother”
Prospero: “Neglecting worldly ends… bettering my mind”
Prospero: “Made such a sinner of his memory to credit his own lie… Hence
his ambition growing.”
Prospero: “My library was dukedom large enough.”
Miranda: “Good wombs have borne bad sons”
Prospero: “By providence divine”
Prospero: “with volumes that I prize about my dukedom”
Prospero: “sea-sorrow”
Prospero: “Made thee more profit than other princess’”
Prospero: “Mine enemies brought to this shore;
Ariel: “All hail, great master!”.
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Ariel: “I flamed amazement”
Prospero: “The tempest that I bade thee”
Prospero: “My brave spirit
Ariel: “I have done thee worthy service… without grudge or grumblings.”
Prospero: “The foul witch Sycorax”.
Prospero: “Sycorax… from Argier… was banished”
Prospero: “She did confine thee… into a coven pine”
Prospero: “It was a torment… which Sycorax could not again undo”
Prospero: “It was mine Art… that made gape the pine, and let thee out”
Prospero: “Not honored with a human shape”
Prospero: “A freckled whelp”
Miranda: “’Tis a villain”
CALIBAN AND PROSPERO
Prospero about CALIBAN: “not honoured with a human shape”
o “my slave” “poisonous slave” “most lying
slave”
o “He does make out fire, fetch our woof and
serves in offices”
Prospero: “For this, be sure, tonight thou shalt have cramps, side stitches
that shall pen thy breath up. Urgent shall for that vast of night that they
may work all exercise on thee.”
Caliban: “This island’s mine, by Sycorax my mother, which thou tak’st
from me”
Caliban: “When thou cam’st first, thou strok’st me, and made much of me,
wouldst give me water with berries in’t, and teach me how to name the
bigger lights, and how the less that urn by day and night.”
Caliban: “I loved thee and showed thee all the qualities o’th’isle.”
CALIBAN “you sty me in this hard rock”
Caliban: “Curs’d be I that did so”
Prospero: “Thou did seek to violate the honor of my child”
Caliban: “Thou didst prevent me.”
Miranda: “I pitied thee… vile race”
Miranda: “taught thee each hour one thing or other”
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THE TEMPEST BY WILLIAM
SHAKESPEARE
Important quotations, discussions
of key elements in the play
and essays
Done by Eleni Baladakis, 96% for English in 2023,
achieving top 1% nationally.
Eleni Baladakis
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Tempest Quotes
STORM
Boatswain: “What cares these roarers for the name of the king”- shift in
power
“A tempestuous noise of thunder and lightning heard”- describing storm.
Gonzalo’s optimism “his complexion is perfect gallows”- they will not die.
RIGHT AFTER STORM= PEACE
Miranda:
o “O, the cry did Knick against my very heart”- empathetic
o “Had I been any god of power, I would have sunk the sea within the
earth.”
o “The good ship so have swallowed and the fraughing souls within
her.”
Prospero: “I have done nothing but in care of thee… my daughter”
Prospero about Miranda: “The very virtue of compassion in thee”
Prospero is “a prince of power” . “Thy father was the duke of Milan and a
prince of power.”
o “rapt in secret studies”
Prospero about Antonio “in my false Brother awakes an evil nature.”
Prospero: “In the dark backward and abysm of time”
Prospero: “The Liberal Arts… being all my study, the government I cast
upon my brother”
Prospero: “Neglecting worldly ends… bettering my mind”
Prospero: “Made such a sinner of his memory to credit his own lie… Hence
his ambition growing.”
Prospero: “My library was dukedom large enough.”
Miranda: “Good wombs have borne bad sons”
Prospero: “By providence divine”
Prospero: “with volumes that I prize about my dukedom”
Prospero: “sea-sorrow”
Prospero: “Made thee more profit than other princess’”
Prospero: “Mine enemies brought to this shore;
Ariel: “All hail, great master!”.
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Ariel: “I flamed amazement”
Prospero: “The tempest that I bade thee”
Prospero: “My brave spirit
Ariel: “I have done thee worthy service… without grudge or grumblings.”
Prospero: “The foul witch Sycorax”.
Prospero: “Sycorax… from Argier… was banished”
Prospero: “She did confine thee… into a coven pine”
Prospero: “It was a torment… which Sycorax could not again undo”
Prospero: “It was mine Art… that made gape the pine, and let thee out”
Prospero: “Not honored with a human shape”
Prospero: “A freckled whelp”
Miranda: “’Tis a villain”
CALIBAN AND PROSPERO
Prospero about CALIBAN: “not honoured with a human shape”
o “my slave” “poisonous slave” “most lying
slave”
o “He does make out fire, fetch our woof and
serves in offices”
Prospero: “For this, be sure, tonight thou shalt have cramps, side stitches
that shall pen thy breath up. Urgent shall for that vast of night that they
may work all exercise on thee.”
Caliban: “This island’s mine, by Sycorax my mother, which thou tak’st
from me”
Caliban: “When thou cam’st first, thou strok’st me, and made much of me,
wouldst give me water with berries in’t, and teach me how to name the
bigger lights, and how the less that urn by day and night.”
Caliban: “I loved thee and showed thee all the qualities o’th’isle.”
CALIBAN “you sty me in this hard rock”
Caliban: “Curs’d be I that did so”
Prospero: “Thou did seek to violate the honor of my child”
Caliban: “Thou didst prevent me.”
Miranda: “I pitied thee… vile race”
Miranda: “taught thee each hour one thing or other”
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