The Tempest Quotes

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What does Prospero say to Antonio about forgiveness?
Threatens to 'justify you traitors' but ''I do forgive'
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Who and why does someone say 'no doubt marketable' ?
Antonio
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What line in the epilogue suggest that Prospero is convinced that God will forgive him?
'Let your indulgence set me free'
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Magical quotations?
'sands with printless foot'
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What quote indicates Prospero's realisation of his own mortality?
'we are such stuff as dreams are made on'
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How does Prospero justify his actions?
'I have done nothing but in care of thee [...] my daughter'
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Why does Prospero think Caliban can never change?
'on whose nature/nurture can never stick'
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What quote suggests Prospero's not out to get revenge?
'The rarer action is in virtue than in vengence'
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What does Caliban accuse Prospero of?
'you taught me language [...] i know how to curse'
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What does Caliban threaten to do to Prospero?
'batter his skull'
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How does Caliban justify his actions towards Miranda?
'I had peopled else this isle with calibans'
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What does caliban say to Stephano about Miranda?
'bring thee forth brave brood'
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What indicates Caliban may repent?
'i shall be wise hereafter and seek for grace
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What indicates Miranda's naivety during the exposition?
'Good wombs have borne bad sons'
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What indicates Miranda's lack of experience with men?
'Is the third man that i e'er i saw, the first that e'er i sigh'd for'
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What's Miranda's ironic perception of the world?
'O brave new world that has such people in it'
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What might provoke admiration for Miranda's sensitivity?
'I have suffered with those that i saw suffer'
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What describes Caliban as sub-human?
'not hounr'd with a human shape'
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What shows Caliban's capacity for empathy?
'sounds and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not'
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Lastly, how amazing is ayesha out of ten?
A billion. infinite
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Antonio

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What line in the epilogue suggest that Prospero is convinced that God will forgive him?

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Magical quotations?

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What quote indicates Prospero's realisation of his own mortality?

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