Life Before the Island
Why was Prospero overthrown as Duke of Milan?
What is he spent more time studying magic than ruling his people?
How does Ariel show human-like emotions during the play?
What is Ariel feels pity for the suffering shipwrecked men?
What is the main reason Alonso feels guilty while stranded on the island?
What is he believes his son died because of the journey he insisted on?
What magical object does Prospero use to control others on the island?
What is his staff?
Shakespeare wrote The Tempest during which historical period?
What is the Elizabethan Era?
What role did Gonzalo play in Prospero and Miranda’s survival?
What is he secretly supplied them with food, clothes, and Prospero’s magic books?
How does Ariel’s behavior contrast with Caliban’s?
What is Ariel serves willingly (for freedom) while Caliban resists bitterly?
What did Prospero value more than politics when he ruled Milan?
What is his study of magic?
What does Prospero do to show he has chosen peace over revenge?
What is he forgives his enemies?
What happened to Prospero before arriving on the island?
What is he was betrayed and had his dukedom usurped by Antonio?
How did Antonio justify taking Prospero’s title?
What is he claimed Prospero was neglecting his duties?
Why does Ariel act invisible around the shipwrecked nobles?
What is to spy on them and report back to Prospero?
What appears to happen to the ship during the storm?
What is it appears to be destroyed but survives, hidden by magic?
What effect does Prospero’s forgiveness have on the nobles by the end of the play?
What is it restores peace and ends their conflict?
What does Prospero ultimately achieve by the end of the play?
What is reclaiming his title as Duke of Milan and forgiving his enemies?
What royal event had Alonso and his court just attended before the shipwreck?
What is the marriage of Alonso’s daughter in Africa?
How is Caliban’s response to being ruled different from Ariel’s?
Caliban resists Prospero with anger, while Ariel obeys to earn freedom.
What happens when the nobles try to eat the banquet?
What is the banquet disappears?
How does Prospero’s use of magic change from the beginning to the end of the play?
What is he shifts from using it for control to letting it go to find peace?
What does Prospero do to show he gives up magic?
What is he breaks his staff and drowns his books?
Who trapped Ariel in a tree before Prospero arrived?
What is Sycorax
What kind of being is Ariel in The Tempest?
A spirit
What proves Ferdinand’s love for Miranda?
What is he works hard without complaining?
What does Prospero say gives him the strength to forgive?
What is the example of mercy he sees in Ariel?
What choice does Caliban make at the end?
What is he stops fighting Prospero?