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The Tempest — Quotes

6 quotes with full 6-part analysis

1
STAGNATE

“Hell is empty, and all the devils are here”

HYPERBOLIC METAPHOR / INFERNAL IMAGERYBINARY COLLAPSE

Ariel (reporting) · Act 1, Scene 2

2
REGRESS

“This island's mine, by Sycorax my mother, which thou tak'st from me”

POSSESSIVE PRONOUN / DECLARATIVE ASSERTIONACCUSATORY SECOND PERSON — 'THOU TAK'ST'

Caliban · Act 1, Scene 2

3
PROGRESS

“Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, sounds and sweet airs, that give deli…”

LYRICAL PROSE / SENSORY IMAGERYSUBVERSION OF CHARACTER EXPECTATIONS

Caliban · Act 3, Scene 2

4
PROGRESS

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a s…”

EXISTENTIAL METAPHOR / METATHEATREINCLUSIVE PRONOUN — 'WE' / 'OUR'

Prospero · Act 4, Scene 1

5
STAGNATE

“You taught me language; and my profit on't is, I know how to curse”

IRONIC INVERSION / ANTICOLONIAL RHETORICSEMICOLON AS STRUCTURAL PIVOT

Caliban · Act 1, Scene 2

6
PROGRESS

“Now my charms are all o'erthrown, and what strength I have's mine own, which is …”

DIRECT ADDRESS / BREAKING THE FOURTH WALLANALOGY — MAGIC/THEATRE/COLONIALISM

Prospero · Epilogue

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