- The storm wasn't real, imagined
- shift focus to mechanism that creates illusions
- Based on ancient religious mystery of Eleusinian
- draw from scriptures that are open to all
- transforms lives by showing, saying, doing something
- sacrament of marriage
- everything is meant to be instead of random and uninspired
- Miranda = wonder
- The elements
- fire, air = Ariel
- water, earth = Caliban
- Prospero
- The mage, magician, sorcerer, alchemist
- Operates in real time, always asking about time
- Bottom wanting to play all the roles in the play
- Prospero knows all stories
- What did Gonzalo put in the boat? Books.
- Memorize Prospero's line: "What seest thou else in the dark backward and abysm of time?"
- meaning: what else do you remember?
- What does Prospero seek?
- Forgiveness and redemption rather than revenge
- Caliban's mother, Sycorax:
- female magic allegory
- What is the echo or pattern in Shakespeare?
- Prospero is going to put on a wedding and talks to perspective son-in-law about lust. Uses the same words Marina did in Pericles "break not the virgin knot".
- interest in virginity and chastity
- Venus and Cupid are excluded of the blessing of the sacrament of marriage.
- Iris speaks about Venus and Cupid. "Be not afraid. I met her Deity cutting the clouds towards Paphos and her son dove-drawn with her." What is the echo?
- In the poem of Venus and Adonis. "Holding their course to Paphos, where their queen means to immure herself and not be seen."
- Anamnesis: remembering from previous reincarnations
- Lost without memories, you are your memories
-Stage direction: "Enter certain reapers" - associated with harvest
-Stage direction: "A strange, hollow, and confused noise"
- Prospero forgot about Caliban's plot against his life.
- Most sublime moment in Shakespeare:
- Prospero: "These our actors, as I foretold you, were all spirits and are melted into air, into thin air; and, like the baseless fabric of this vision, the cloud-capped tow'rs, the gorgeous palaces, the solemn temples, the great glove itself, yea all which it inherit, shall dissolve, and like this insubstantial pageant faded, leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep."
- It's all a dream, it's all a puppet show
- Trinculo and Stephano distracted by clothes, but Caliban wants Prospero's books.
- Gonzalo: "set it down with gold on lasting pillars"
- echo of Othello
- Prospero draws the curtain and Alonso sees his son Ferdinand whom he thought was dead.
- Play within a play:
- the whole play
- the masque
- How to set Prospero free from the play?
- Do you believe? If you do clap your hands. (Peter Pan)
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