Tempest Final Project

Final Project Information

Tempest: The Final Questions

The Basics:

1.What does Prospero do before Ariel brings in Alonso and the others?

2. How does Prospero treat his prisoners as they awake? How do they respond? Specifically, how does he treat Sebastian and Antonio? How do they respond?

3. What are Ferdinand and Miranda doing when they appear? How is the game going?

4. How does Gonzalo interpret all that has happened?

5. How many ways can we understand Prospero's comment on Caliban? How does Caliban respond to what has happened to him?

6. What will happen next? What happens to Ariel?

Big Picture:

1. What does it mean to forgive?

2. What do you think of Prospero as the play closes?

3. What are we to think of Prospero's epilogue? What if this is Shakespeare's final farewell?

Tempest 5.1 HW Questions

Respond to the following questions

1. Why does Prospero decide to give up magic? What does his choice show about what he thinks happened in the past? How does he plan to live in the future? What has Prospero learned? Has he changed in any fundamental way or had the change already occurred before the beginning of the action?

Tempest 4.1

1. Check journals & books

Discussion Questions
1.What has Prospero agreed to at the beginning of the scene? What warning does he give to Ferdinand and Miranda?
2. What instructions does Prospero have for Ariel (4.1.35-38)?
3. What happens in the show (masque) that Prospero presents for Ferdinand and Miranda (4.1.60-139)?
4. What is the subject of the show? Why is it appropriate?
5. Why does Prospero cut short the show? How do Ferdinand and Miranda respond to what happens (4.1.143-145)? How does Prospero explain the show and his actions (4.1.146-163)?
6. According to Ariel (4.1.171-184), what has happened to Caliban, Stephano, and Trinculo since we last saw them?
7. What does Prospero tell Ariel to prepare for Caliban, Stephano, and Trinculo? What is Prospero's reaction to what Caliban has done (4.1.188-193)? Is his reaction justified?
8. What happens when Caliban, Stephano, and Trinculo come to kill Prospero? How are they driven away?
9. How does Prospero respond to his successes (4.1.262-266)?

Tempest: 3.3

1.  Check responses & vocab

2. Discussion questions:

*How does the apparition of the banquet affect Alonso and his entourage?

*How is the banquet used as a symbol?

*Why aren’t the men allowed to eat the food? Is this an effective moment for Ariel to accuse them of their sins?

Quiz time! You'll be fabulous.

Homework questions. Answer one of the following:

1. How is Ferdinand different from Caliban in his relationship to Miranda? Why does he pledge to keep her honor safe? OR 2. What is the overall impact of the Masque? How is it supposed to affect the two young lovers? What is its message about the sanctity of the marriage bond?

Tempest: Act 3, Sc 1 & 2

Free write on whatever topic you did not write about for homework:

1. Thinking about 3.1, what is Shakespeare suggesting about the true nature of love?

2. Thinking about 3.2, why include this subplot that mirrors the conspiracy of the nobles?

Let's make a family tree.

Tempest Act 2, Sc 2

1. Let's look at Gonzalo's idea of a nation, a utopia
2. Responses from the blog
3. Quiz

Homework for next night's reading. Respond to one question, please.

1. How has Ferdinand’s and Miranda’s love deepened from their first interaction? What is Shakepeare suggesting about the true nature of love?

OR

2. What does Caliban hope to accomplish by his plot against Prospero? Why does Shakespeare include this subplot mirroring the conspiracy of the nobles?