Author: Seydou

The road not taken

The point: is that Robert frost uses the image of a cross Road in order to symbolise what it is like for a human being to make difficult decisions

Explain :

the one Road covered in leaves hardly been trodden in an do the other one with many shoe print marks in it saying one could be about being different to other people or going some place else then others such as  hevean and hell.

Example :two roads leading to a good or bad life e.g hevean and hell, life and death, life ambitions and prison.

how does Prospero change

we the audience first meet Prospero in act one scene two where is cunningly evil man with magic in his possession he uses this to control the seas to create a tempest (storm) .he enforced it when actors such as Gonzalo,Antonio,Alonso,boatswain,master and Sebastian all where on their ship when in occurred .Prospero felt in this mood to create the tempest as being usurped had injected mixed emotions into him like rage ,revenge but also there was his caring side for Gonzalo who Prospero protected Gonzalo from Prospero’s own storm this was due to : after being usurped Gonzalo knowing Prospero like his books had built him a library.this quote expresses prosperos feelings of how he feels towards his brother Antonio “that a brother be so perfidous” perfidous meaning treacherous. Prospero  feels protective when ferdinand Alonso son meets miranda he later on realises that the two are In  love he then accepts it this quote explains about how ferdinand had strangely passed Prospero test “all thy vexations the were but my trials of thy love and thou hast strangely stood the test”. Prospero then has a change of heart from devious wizard creating a tempest to a person trying to change to be a usual man he shows this In act five scene 1by allowing Alonso a once hated person to Prospero to stay for the night “sir I invite your highness and your train to my poor cell where you shall take your rest for this one night, which, part of it.” this shows how he changes during the play he also shows change when he going to allow his life long servant Arial to be free and discharged of her Dutys  after doing another task In act one scene two, to then be out of his hands.  “do so; and after two days I will discharge thee Showing that he feels  that he needn’t people slave round for the likes of him and wants forgiveness from people that did. He still however treats some people with foul language such as in act one scene two when  speaking to caliban “thou poisonous slave, got by the devil himself upon thy wicked dam, come forth. Towards the end of the play Prospero asks for the forgiveness from the audience that he acts for , the reason for doing so is because he feels in need to change  from the villainous man he was  to be a good normal man wanting to desert  magic including dispersing of his magical staff  I know as in the scene act five scene one showing how Prospero does change. The quote I have  chosen to support this statement of Prospero changing is “with the help of your good hands, gentle breath, of yours my sails must fill or else my project fails which was to please,  now I want spirits to enforce,  art to enchant…. Unless I be relieved from my prayers, which pierces so that it assaults mercy itself and frees all fault… Let your indulgence set me free ” this is Prospero saying that by clapping and applauding  it will be there way of signing forgiveness to him.

 

Part b homework

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.

Part a homework

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

Act 4 scene 1

“all thy vexations were but my trials of thy love, and thou hast strangely stood the test” this quote has been said by Prospero and I  think that he was intending to direct it to Ferdinand. It means that Prospero had been testing him to see the limits he’d go to show his feelings and passion for Miranda as shown in previous scenes from such things as carrying logs and was actually on a trial, which meant being Prospero slave I know this because when he says “were but my trials of thy love”.when Prospero then says” and thou hast strangely stood the test”it was him giving Ferdinand his blessing,as he had seen the lengths he’d go, to be with Miranda further on in the scene Prospero wants to kill caliban and caliban to Prospero this affects the plot because it will cause tension  as there could be a good war coming between the two.

Parse

The clause I’ve chosen is “Paunch him with a stake” the word Paunch is a verb, him a pronoun, with a preposition, a an indefinite article and stake finally is a noun.

 

act 3 scene 1

In the scene love plays an important role impacting the feelings ferdinand and miranda have for one another .ferdinand despite only being the third man to ever see before her very eyes feels as though she loves  him and needs to know if the feelings mutuall”do you love me”through on into the text the words then turn to marrige “my husband then “ferdinand then replying with “heres my hand ” finally after some time prospero comes to his senses and realises mirandas in love.