Month: December 2014

“do not  infest your mind with the beating of this strange business ” infest – disease , beating-verb,  business – events

Literal meaning :

– simple meaning

– direct meaning

– without figurative language

The scene I have chosen to analyze is act 3 scene 3 this scene uses an affect called doubling an example :in this scene caliban, triculo and stephano wonder about the island stephano pointing out of what he’d do to rule the land this is also the case with act 3 scene 1 where gonzalo, Sebastopol and Antonio just merely happened to be doing the same thing.

Deboshed – drunken,

valour – bravery that’s fake

frippery-shop for 2nd hand clothes

marred – ruined

smote-struck

 poined-dug out

jerkin-short jacket

potent-powerful

dalliance – flirting

ratify – confirm

hymen – Greek god of marriage

aspersions- blessing

jocund-happy

 hest-command

credulous – gullible, foolish

detract – criticise

omit-ignore

Foison – plenty

vassal – slave