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‘Examine the ways in which Shakespeare makes dramatic use of deception and
trickery in the Tempest’ – with reference to Faustus etc
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Also, there's the sort of
wider dramatic sense, in that he's conning the audience for a
wider philosophical reason as well as conning the characters (and
maybe himself ) for personal and political aims
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A Jacobean audience would instantly link the ‘roars’ of the
water and the inevitable shipwreck with the ‘Sea Venture’ tale, assuming the play
to be mimetic
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This subverting of the
audience’s perception and even Miranda’s, when she seems to be in emotional
turmoil and asks ‘if by your art you have been the roars in the water’, is done by
Shakespeare to emphasis the essence of illusion present
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Bring your epilogue discussion here and link it
explicitly
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This nature of illusion is illuminated in Marlowe’s Dr
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This view is
supported by critic Young who declares Faustus to be a ‘victim of a larger illusion’
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Miranda, when asked what her ‘name’ is by Ferdinand, proclaims ‘Miranda
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The audience can perceive that Prospero
has previously commanded Miranda to conceal her ‘name’
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Thus, Miranda was subconsciously deceived into telling Ferdinand her
name
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This, in turn, propels the progress of Miranda and
Ferdinand’s relationship, making the occurrence of a dynastic marriage all the
more likely, bringing about Prospero’s ultimate triumph
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Whereas Dr F is the victim
of tricks, P is the master of psychology, which illustrates the
Machiavellian nature of his character
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The
utter despair felt by Alonso, exhibited in his relentless protestation for ‘peace’,
enabling him to mourn, demonstrates that he is a character overwhelmed with
guilt and raw emotion
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Shakespeare also makes use of dramatic deception and trickery in highlighting the
flaws in the ideals present in his contemporary society
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The fact that Gonzalo blindly accepts this absurd justification reveals his complete
ineptitude as a King’s councillor, given the obviously ludicrous nature of the
reasoning and the fact that Antonio is a proven conspirator and usurper, with
Sebastian the next in line for the throne
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Good
point
Moreover, Shakespeare proposes a furtherly radical interpretation on Renaissance
ideals; he subliminally challenges the Renaissance ideal of learning, symbolised
through Prospero’s ‘Art’
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Yet, it is
apparent that the neglecting of ‘all worldly ends’ placed Prospero in a position of
political weakness that was utilised by the trickery of his ‘brother’ Antonio who
usurped him to combine his de-jure rule with a de-facto rule
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It

could be said that Shakespeare, through this real-politik plagued story, is exposing
the reproachable limited rather than reproachable nature of the
Renaissance ideal of learning and self-improvement
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Critic Hulme states that the Tempest is a ‘play imbricated with the discourse of
colonialism’; thus, he may align with the interpretation that Prospero tricked
Caliban by ‘stroking’ hum and ‘(making much)’ of hum, so that he could almost, to
use the pro-verb, lull him into a false sense of security, and steel the island from
Caliban
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However, Jacobeans would strongly oppose this viewpoint, pointing
to the fact that the ‘island’ wasn’t taken from him via the use of deception and
trickery, but because he ‘violated the honour’ of Miranda
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Consequently, it is conceivable that this particular
segment of the plot wasn’t brushed by Shakespeare’s dramatic use of deception
or trickery, but was rather the product of Caliban’s rejection of ‘Art’ and
‘(violation)’ of Miranda, translating into a just reprimand for attempting a
condemnable act
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Here, Prospero is
deceiving the audience into believing that his fate is determined by whether or
not the audience claps
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Such a line of interpretation coincides with one critic
Wilson Knight who claims the play is a ‘gigantic metaphor for the imagination’
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In terms of essay structure, this
needs to go with the discussion of the storm because it goes to
what he is saying about the philosophy of drama
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Shakespeare uses this art of deception and trickery to radically
challenge ideal, to channel audiences’ conceptions of reality into an intelligible
web of confusion, and to, through the use of Prospero, restore political
equilibrium
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Maybe think about the
Young 'he is his own Lucifer' comment
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AO1 - 9 - see my point about linking paragraphs together, the
first para and the epilogue paragraph belong together as they
are about his philosophical intention
AO2 - 9 - great selection of text but give me another explicit LA
to push it over the top
AO3 - 4 - see my comments on another Dr F bit and expanding
it
AO3 - 5 - another excellent use of critical discussion
AO4 - 10 - this is a hard question to get context in productively
but you managed it in the Caliban discussion and about idealism



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