Revenge and forgiveness

Quote

Character

Act/Scene

“Sometime I’d divide / And burn in many places; on the topmast, / The yards and bowsprit, would I flame distinctly, / Then meet and join.”

Ariel

Act 1 Scene 2

“All the infections that the sun sucks up / From bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall, and make him / By inch-meal a disease!”

Caliban

Act 2 Scene 2

“There thou mayst brain him, / Having first seized his books; or with a log / Batter his skull, or paunch him with a stake, / Or cut his weasand with thy knife.”

Caliban

Act 3 Scene 2

“I have made you mad.”

Ariel

Act 3 Scene 3

“But remember – / For that’s my business to you – that you three / From Milan did supplant good Prospero.”

Ariel

Act 3 Scene 3

“The good old lord Gonzalo. / His tears run down his beard like winter’s drops / From eaves of reeds.”

Ariel

Act 5 Scene 1

“Your charm so strongly works ‘em / That, if you now beheld them, your affections / Would become tender.”

Ariel

Act 5 Scene 1

“The rarer action is / In virtue than in vengeance.”

Prospero

Act 5 Scene 1

“For you, most wicked sir, whom to call brother / Would even infect my mouth, I do forgive / Thy rankest fault – all of them – and require / My dukedom of thee, which perforce I know / Thou must restore.”

Prospero

Act 5 Scene 1