The Tempest

1. The Tempest Lesson 3

2. The reading skills that are assessed in the Shakespeare Paper are: • your ability to understand a question and select relevant material to suit your answer to it • your appreciation of how the language of the text informs your analysis of the question • your ability to construct an appropriate argument and develop your points in a coherent way • your understanding of character, theme, language or performance in relation to the extract

3. Selecting relevant material: 1. The summaries. On the Test Paper, you will get a summary of each extract in a grey box. This is valuable material to use in your opening paragraph to link the question and the scenes with your opening point of view. Example Question:

4. Example summaries:

5. Question : In these extracts, how does Prospero’s language convey his innocence? Summary 1 In this extract, Prospero tells Miranda of their former status and how his brother had betrayed his trust by turning the government against him. Summary 2 In this extract, Prospero tells of how Antonio took on the role of King himself and then removed Prospero and his daughter from the land.

6. How might the essay start? Prospero uses language that suggests he was a wholly innocent party in the events that led up to him leaving Milan. He convinces his daughter of his role of victim so thoroughly that she is reduced to tears on his behalf. It is not that we challenge Prospero’s story but rather that we want to meet the man who abused his guiltless brother to see what he has to say for himself. Uses words with meanings that are linked to those in the title, giving added coherence and showing understanding.

7. Selecting material to suit - scene summaries - annotation leading to quotation

8. Spotting the focus of the question How do we see Miranda respond to the two men in her life in these extracts? Miranda: obedient? passive? submissive? emotional? Focus of question? Character Theme Language Performance

9. Extract 1 Act II scene ii MIRANDA MIRANDA Alack, for pity! I, not remembering how I cried out then, Will cry it o'er again: it is a hint That wrings mine eyes to’t. PROSPERO Hear a little further And then I’ll bring thee to the present business Which now’s upon’s; without the which this story Were most impertinent. MIRANDA Wherefore did they not That hour destroy us? PROSPERO Well demanded, wench: My tale provokes that question. Dear, they durst not, So dear the love my people bore me, nor set A mark so bloody on the business, but With colours fairer painted their foul ends. In few, they hurried us aboard a bark, Bore us some leagues to sea; where they prepared A rotten carcass of a boat, not rigg’d, Nor tackle, sail, nor mast; the very rats Instinctively had quit it: there they hoist us, To cry to the sea that roar’d to us, to sigh To the winds whose pity, sighing back again, Did us but loving wrong. MIRANDA Alack, what trouble Was I then to you! Miranda is moved to tears in sympathy for her father’s predicament. Miranda, despite her sheltered life on the island, knows of man’s callous waste of lives. She thinks only of her father’s troubles and sees herself as a burden rather than a victim.

10. Extract 2: Act III scene i FERDINAND I am in my condition A prince, Miranda; I do think, a king; I would, not so! – and would no more endure This wooden slavery than to suffer The flesh-fly blow my mouth. Hear my soul speak: The very instant that I saw you, did My heart fly to your service; there resides, To make me slave to it; and for your sake Am I this patient log – man. MIRANDA Do you love me? FERDINAND O heaven, O earth, bear witness to this sound And crown what I profess with kind event If I speak true! if hollowly, invert What best is boded me to mischief! I Beyond all limit of what else I’ the world Do love, prize, honour you. MIRANDA I am a fool To weep at what I am glad of. PROSPERO [aside] Fair encounter Of two most rare affections! Heavens rain grace On that which breeds between ’em! FERDINAND Wherefore weep you? MIRANDA At mine unworthiness that dare not offer What I desire to give, and much less take What I shall die to want. But this is trifling; And all the more it seeks to hide itself, The bigger bulk it shows. Hence, bashful cunning! And prompt me, plain and holy innocence! I am your wife, it you will marry me; If not, I'll die your maid: to be your fellow You may deny me; but I'll be your servant, Whether you will or no.

11. How do we see Miranda respond to the two men in her life in these extracts? In these two extracts, we see Miranda receiving information from her father through a lengthy exposition, then, later we see her receive an outpouring of love. Despite being the receiver for most of the first extract, Miranda does ensure that her questions are answered by making timely interruptions. This is a skill she develops in her dealings with Ferdinand as she cuts out the “trifling” and gets down to the main business – love. In the first extract, we see Miranda sympathising with the dreadful situation her father found himself in when they were banished from Milan. She is determined to “cry it o’er again” to make up for not being able to remember crying at the time. However, Miranda is not just pouring out sympathy, she is also wise and able to ask pertinent questions to receive the information about why their captors chose not to “destroy” them. This is a question leading Prospero to disclose more of the political situation.

12. From your annotations, select the best 2 that suit the question and draft a paragraph with embedded quotations that are analysed in detail. How do we see Miranda respond to the two men in her life in these extracts? Paragraph from extract 2:

13. Recap: • Annotation • Embedded quotations

14. Homework: How might these extracts be performed to engage the audience? In one paragraph with embedded quotations Extracts from The Storm