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Act 2 Scene 1

From the beginning to line 55

- Galonzo – optimist
- Alonzo – Very done/ fed up
- Sebastian and Adrian – sarcastic jokes – Galonzo is their particular target for allways
talking too much
- Alonso – consumed by grief – grieving dead family
- None of them listen to the king
- Utopia and Dystopia
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Antonio and Sebastian only see the imperfections of the island
- Dramatic irony
- Differences between the Kings part and the others
- “cock or the cockerel” – young or the old
- obvious to that he’s being mocked – or determined not to pick up on it
- Galonzo – blank verse – large part of the scene is in Pro’s
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Illustrates the fact that they are bad people
- “eye of green” – jealousy

line 55 – 109

- Gonzalo
- - his views of the island
- “Claribel” Sebastian doesn’t think it is a good marriage – bitter irony
- “widow dido” – widowed – not very tactful as she’s deserted by husband and kills
herself
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Line 109 – 162

- Francisco and Gonzalo – more sympathetic – contrasts Sebastian and Antonio
- Theme of loss/ grief
- Alonzo not just lose his son but also his daughter
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Not weak – will speak when he needs to
- Island unlimited possibilities
- Gonzalo – distract Alonzo from King

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Speech is ironic – no need for treachery – Antonio already overthrew Prospero

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