The Tempest
Which quotation most clearly supports the idea that Shakespeare used settings in The Tempest in order to develop the reader’s sense of Ariel’s power?
Not a soul
But felt a fever of the mad, and played
Some tricks of desperation. All but mariners
Plunged in the foaming brine, and quit the vessel,
Then all afire with me. The King’s son, Ferdinand,
With hair upstaring—then like reeds, not hair—
Was the first man that leaped; cried, ‘Hell is empty,
And all the devils are here.’ B. PROSPERO.
Dull thing, I say so: he, that Caliban,
Whom now I keep in service. Thou best know’st
What torment I did find thee in. Thy groans
Did make wolves howl, and penetrate the breasts
Of ever-angry bears: it was a torment
To lay upon the damned, which Sycorax
Could not again undo: it was mine art,
When I arrived and heard thee, that made gape
The pine, and let thee out. C. PROSPERO.
Refusing her grand hests, she did confine thee,
By help of her more potent ministers,
And in her most unmitigable rage,
Into a cloven pine; within which rift
Imprisoned thou didst painfully remain
A dozen years; within which space she died,
And left thee there; where thou didst vent thy groans
As fast as mill-wheels strike. Then was this island—
Save for the son that she did litter here,
A freckled whelp hag-born—not honoured with
A human shape. D. ARIEL.
The mariners all under hatches stowed,
Who, with a charm joined to their suffered labour,
I have left asleep. And for the rest o’th’ fleet, Which I dispersed, they all have met again,
And are upon the Mediterranean float,
Bound sadly home for Naples;
Supposing that they saw the King’s ship wrecked,
And his great person perish.
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