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The Tempest

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The Tempest: plot (first act)

Complete the text with the words below.

In the first act ________, King of Naples, his son ________, Antonio, Duke of Milan, and their court are shipwrecked and end up on an enchanted island. Everything has been planned by a magician, ________, who lives on the island with ________, his daughter. Years before he had been unfairly ________ from his dukedom of Milan by his brother Antonio and had reached this island, where the ________ Sycorax lived together with her son ________ and the spirit Ariel, who then respectively became Prospero's servant and agent.

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The Tempest: style

Choose the correct alternatives to complete the sentence.

Style in The Tempest

A: is characterised by a single level of speech and action.

B: changes from character to character.

C: changes even in the same character, who can use both prose and verse.

D: involves the use of realistic scenes.

E: involves the use of noises, sounds, songs, music and dances.

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The Tempest: plot (second and third acts)

Complete the sentences with the correct information. Use only one word for each gap.

1. King Alonso is desperate because he thinks his son has ________. Ferdinand, however, is ________ but is actually on another part of the island, attracted by Ariel's ________.
2. Ferdinand meets ________ and falls in love with her.
3. In order to understand if Ferdinand is ________, Prospero asks him to do very lowly tasks.
4. Caliban meets Trinculo and Stephano, and they plan to ________ Prospero, but their plan is ________ by Ariel, who tells Prospero.

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The Tempest: plot (fourth and fifth acts)

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In the fourth act Ariel and Ferdinand entertain each other while Alonso plans actions of reward and punishment. In the end everybody is reconciled: Miranda and Ferdinand get engaged,Alonso forgives his brother and returns to his lost dukedom in Naples. Caliban leaves the island and Ariel is released.

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The Tempest: setting

Choose the correct alternative to complete the sentences.

1. The play is set on a ________ and on an island.
2. The action lasts three ________.
3. The island is perhaps somewhere in the ________.
4. When he chose a location for the play, Shakespeare may also have had ________ in his mind.
5. An island is the ideal stage for magical occurrences involving exotic and strange ________.

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Characters: Prospero

Read the following sentences and say whether they are true or false.

A: Prospero was more interested in philosophy than in the affairs of his dukedom.

B: Antonio, Prospero's brother, kindly proposed that he leave for an island with his daughter.

C: Prospero is a magician who uses magic to do good.

D: His symbols are his books, his wand and his robe.

E: He wears his robe when he is an ordinary man and takes it off when he acts as a magician.

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Characters: Ariel

Complete the sentences with the words below.

1. Ariel is a fast and ________ spirit of the air.
2. He can appear as a sea-nymph or as a ________.
3. When he was at Sycorax's service, he was ________ in a tree.
4. Prospero set him free after twelve years and gave him ________ more suited to his nature.
5. Ariel's name means '________ of the Lord'.

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Characters: Caliban

Complete the sentences with the correct information. Use only one word for each gap.

1. Caliban is Sycorax's ________ and the only ________ of the island.
2. He showed Prospero how to survive on the island and Prospero taught him to ________.
3. Caliban tried to ________ Miranda and Prospero enslaved and ________ him.
4. He is repulsive but sensitive, and is associated with ________.
5. His name may be derived from the word '________'.

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The Tempest: themes

Read the following sentences and say whether they are true or false.

A: Forgiveness is one of the main themes in The Tempest, where all ends in peace and reconciliation.

B: In this play Shakespeare wants to demonstrate that evil may come of good.

C: Magic is represented in two ways: Sycorax's black magic and Prospero's good one.

D: Black magic is used to work evil on people.

E: Prospero's magic comes from his practical experience in life.

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The Tempest: themes

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An important theme in The Tempest is the warning against the advantages of English expansion. Prospero represents America: he has liberated a far-away island where he has organised himself and made the local inhabitants work with him. He uses force and promises of future richness to impose his power, becoming, in this way, a symbol for the military power Europe was exercising in Shakespeare's time.

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