Power and control

Quote

Character

Act/Scene

“Thou liest, malignant thing! Hast thou forgot / The foul witch Sycorax”

Prospero

Act 1 Scene 2

“If thou more murmur’st, I will rend an oak / And peg thee in his knotty entrails till / Thou hast howled away twelve winters.”

Prospero

Act 1 Scene 2

“For this, be sure, tonight thou shalt have cramps, / Side-stiches, that shall pen thy breath up; urchins / Shall, for that vast of night that they may work, / All exercise on thee”

Prospero

Act 1 Scene 2

“This island’s mine, by Sycorax my mother, / Which thou tak’st from me.”

Caliban

Act 1 Scene 2

“When thou cam’st first / Thou strok’st me, and made much of me; wouldst give me / Water with berries in’t, and teach me how / To name the bigger light, and how the less, / That burn by day and night.

And then I loved thee, / And showed thee all the qualities o’th’isle, / The fresh springs, brine-pits, barren place and fertile – / Cursed be that I did so!”

Caliban

Act 1 Scene 2

“I must obey. His art is of such power, / It would control my dam’s god Setebos, / And make a vassal of him.”

Caliban

Act 2 Scene 2

“That’s a brave god, and bears celestial liquor. I will kneel to him.”

Caliban

Act 2 Scene 2

“I’ll show thee the best springs. I’ll pluck thee berries. / I’ll fish for thee, and get thee wood enough. / A plague upon the tyrant that I serve!”

Caliban

Act 2 Scene 2

“I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer that by his cunning hath cheated me of the island.”

Caliban

Act 3 Scene 2