Sycorax My Mother from The Tempest 1611 SPEAKING There is hostility between Prospero and Caliban who pronounces the phrase of the title what do you think he means by that ID: 589761
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“This Island’s Mine by Sycorax My Mother”from The Tempest (1611)
SPEAKINGThere is hostility between Prospero and Caliban, who pronounces the phrase of the title: what do you think he means by that?
Caliban
accuses Prospero of having taken from him the island he inherited from his mother, the witch
Sycorax
.Slide2
GUIDED ANALYSISRead lines 1 – 15What does Caliban
openly accuse Prospero of?
Were your predictions right?
He accuses him of having taken the land from him.
How did Prospero and
Caliban get on when Prospero landed on the island.
Open answer.
At the beginning their relationship was good
What made Caliban repent of his previous behaviour?
The fact that he, who was once the king of the island, has now become Prospero’s servant and prisoner (ll. 10-15)
What did Prospero teach Caliban on his arrival?
He taught him the name of the sun and the moon.
What did Caliban show him in his turn?
The good qualities of the island.Slide3
GUIDED ANALYSISWhat is Miranda’s attitude towards Caliban and what does she call him? Read lines 15-32Read to the end
Miranda taught
Caliban
her own language: what use has
he made of it?
He has learnt to curse both Miranda and her father.
How does Prospero react to
Caliban’s
words?Prospero accuses
Caliban of having betrayed his trust by trying to rape his daughter, Miranda.
What do we learn from Caliban’s
answer?That he hasn’t repented and he regrets not succeeding in his purpose of peopling the islands with his descendants.
Miranda really despises him;
in fact she uses such words as “abhorred slave”
(l. 23), “savage” (l.26); “A thing most brutish” (l. 28), “thy vile race” (l.29).
What is Prospero’s behaviour towards
Caliban
?
He behaves like a master to his slave.Slide4
GUIDED ANALYSISThe Tempest can be read as a metaphor of English colonization of the West Indies.How does the passage echo the clash between the colonization and the natives?Prospero embodies the colonizers who have imposed their dominion and civilization on the natives; Caliban voices the oppressed natives.