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The tempest

Act 2 scene 1
Develops the characters of the ship wrecked passengers – helps the audience distinguish
between the good and the bad
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Short
imperatives are softened
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Gonzalo, Adrian, transact attempt to
comfort Alonzo
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The adjective ‘merry’ seems very inappropriate to use to a man grieving with the
loss of his son
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Nevertheless, the audience the is likely to feel sympathy for the king, seen
in him as a father who has lost his son
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By the end of the scene the audience will feel even sorrier for Alonzo as he is the victim of
an attempted assassination
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Both are traitors younger
brothers
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Throughout the scene Sebastian’s defiance escalates and instead of comforting his grieving
brother he blames Alonzo for being ship wrecked as they were sailing home from his
daughter’s wedding
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Distinct
racist undertones
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Undermining Alonzo’s ability to make good decisions and to govern wisely and
this defiance foreshadows Sebastian’s decision to attempt to kill the King later in the scene
the tale od the widow dido is significant to the events of the Tempest in a number of
different ways so this how the story of Dido the queen of Carthage had an affair with Aniam
a Trojan Prince and when he ended the relationship to peruse his destiny in Italy by
founding the city of Rome Dido committed suicide then the Dido story is significant in

several ways to The tempest by linking Clarabelle’s name to Didio’s name its hinted that
Clarabelle’s relationship isn’t going to be a happy one it’s also significant because Antoniou
challenges Gonzalo’s description of Dido as a widow as they had no married hence
Antonio’s surprise near widower pox on that also Adrienne corrects Gonzalso rightly stated
that Dido was from Carthage not Tunis and that a further significance feature is that
Gonzalo’s thoughts on the ideal society might have been interpreted as Threat to the status
Quo because in his fantasy world there would be no aristocracy no inherited wealth
everything would be shared and nature would provide what people need
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devision
between the rich and the poor was growing wider and wider culminating later with the
English Civil war it’s unlikely that Gonzalo’s ideas of Utopia would ever work because human
nature is greedy and more unpredictable than he thinks
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However while Gonzalo is optimistic and appears to be happy with life he might be
mire complex than he seems although he’ loyal to Alonso the fact that he is considered at
length how an ideal society should be run implies that he has some concerns about t eking’s
rule
Setting of the island develops the theme of magic and illusion heightening the difference
between the character through pathetic fallacy Gonzalo see’s the good when he says ‘how
lush and lusty the grass looks! How gree! His green exclamations and the use of alliteration
of ‘lush’ and ‘lusty’ emphasises this an enthusiasm
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Perhaps the fresh clothes with their
positive connotations foreshadow that Prospero will show mercy to the characters hinting
at the themes of renewal forgiveness and reconciliation so now that the audience members
have had the opportunity to evaluate Sebastian and Antonio it is more likely they will see as
credible their attempt to kill the king towards the end of the scene
We see the theme of challenging the power of Antio when Antonio flatters Sebastian who is
initially reluctant but is quick to be persuaded to tempt him to overthrow his brother
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Caesura (full
stop) emphasises the next part
‘my strong imagination sees a crown dropping upon thy head’ temps him
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This is not yet phrased as an invitation to murder the king

Claribel lives too far away from Italy to rule it ‘she that’ repeated lots for emphasis
‘unless the sun were post’ hyperbole (exaggeration) when he says only a messenger moving
as fast as the sun can reach her, and the journey would take as long as a new-born son
requires to grow and start shaving
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Now they
have escaped death by drowning, they must decide the ploy



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