Name that concept!
Analogies & Homologies
Sounds like which character?
Location location location
Food
100
" . . . each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice; for indeed it seems we have no other test of truth and reason than the example and pattern of the opinions and customs of the country we live in" (Montaigne 2646, par. 9)
What is relativism?
100

Caliban is to ____________, and Ariel is to ___________.

What are earth and air?

100
"Our wives will cry 'Miracle!' but it is no miracle" (Montaigne 2652).
Who is Miranda?
100
Villegaignon landed there.
What is Brazil? (Montaigne 2644, par. 2) Montaigne calls it "Antarctic France."
100
Caliban's diet
What are "pignuts" (2.2.166)? What are fish?
200
"I think there is more barbarity in eating a man alive than in eating him dead; and in tearing by tortures and the rack a body still full of feeling, in roasting a man bit by bit, in having him bitten and mangled by dogs and swine," etc. (Montaigne 2649, par. 20).
What is torture? What is cannibalism?
200

Montaigne's natives correspond to _______________ in The Tempest.

Who is Caliban?

200
"This is a nation . . . in which there is no sort of traffic, no knowledge of letters, no science of numbers, no name for magistrate or for political superiority, no custom of servitude, no riches or poverty, no contracts, no successions, no partitions, no occupations but leisure ones, no care for any but common kinship, no clothes, no agriculture, no metal, no use of wine or wheat" (M 2647, par. 10)
Who is Gonzalo?
200
Ariel fetches "dew" from this location.
What is the Bermudas? (1.2.230)
200
Introduced by Stephano, banned by Gonzalo
What is "sack" or "wine" (3.2.13 and 2.2.76)? What is alcohol?
300
"It is astonishing what firmness they show in their combats, which never end but in slaughter and bloodshed; for as to routs and terror, they know nothing of either" (Montaigne 2649, par. 18).
What is warfare? What is valor?
300
Claribel corresponds to ________________ in _The Tempest_.
Who is Miranda?
300
"So we may well call THESE PEOPLE barbarians, in respect to the rules of reason, but not in respect to ourselves, who surpass them in every kind of barbarity" (Montaigne 2649, par. 22; emphasis added). Hint: THESE PEOPLE
Who is Caliban?
300
Continent (other than South America) mentioned in both Montaigne's essay and Shakespeare's play.
What is Africa? (Carthage, 2645, par. 6; Tunis, 5.1.11)
300
Poof! It's gone!
What is the vanishing banquet (3.3)?
400
"The former retain alive and vigorous their genuine, their most useful and natural, virtues and properties, which we have debased in the latter in adapting them to gratify our corrupted taste" (Montaigne 2646, par. 9).
What is nature vs. nurture?
400
Prospero is to _________________.
Who is the director of a play? What is colonialism?
400
"[TWO] of these men, ignorant of the price they will pay some day, in loss of repose and happiness, for gaining knowledge of the corruptions of this side of the ocean; ignorant also of the fact that of this intercourse will come their ruin," etc. (Montaigne 2652, par. 35).
Who are Antonio and Sebastian? Who are Stefano and Trinculo?
400

Farthest west and south mentioned in The Tempest.

What is Patagonia?

400
Caliban is mistaken for this creature.
What is a fish? (2.2.25)
500
All the characters together in Prospero's cave represent this concept.
What is individuation?
500
Caliban corresponds to this people.
Who are the Native Americans?
500

" . . . not only is there nothing barbarous in this fancy, but it is altogether Anacreontic" (Montaigne 2652, par. 34).

Who is Ferdinand? Who is Miranda? "Anacreontic" [uh-nak-ree-ON-tik] means "convivial and amatory" (dictinary.com).

500
Vanished beneath the waves.
What is Atlantis? (Montaigne 2644, par. 3)
500
On the menu in the New World.
What is people? (Montaigne 2649, par. 19)
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