Magic and illusions

Quote

Character

Act/Scene

“The ditty does remember my drowned father. / This is no mortal business, nor no sound / That the earth owes.”

Ferdinand

Act 1 Scene 2

“How lush and lusty the grass looks! How green!”

Gonzalo

Act 2 Scene 1

“Me thinks our garments are now as fresh as when we put them on first in Afric, at the marriage of the King’s fair daughter Claribel to the King of Tunis.”

Gonzalo

Act 2 Scene 1

“Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, / Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. / Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments / Will hum about mine ears.”

Caliban

Act 3 Scene 3

“Now I will believe / That there are unicorns.”

Sebastian

Act 3 Scene 3

“Graces at my command / Have waked their sleepers, oped and let ‘em forth / By my so potent art.”

Prospero

Act 5 Scene 1

“But this rough magic / I here abjure; and when I have required some heavenly music – which even now I do – / To work mine end upon their senses that / This ariy charm is for, I’ll break my staff, / Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, / And deeper than did ever plummet sound / I’ll drown my book.”

Prospero

Act 5 Scene 1

“I do forgive thee, / Unnatural though thou art.”

Prospero

Act 5 Scene 1