Power - Quotes
English Lit: AQA GCSE The Tempest, topic 11.2.1
Manipulation and Treason Quotations
Many characters, including Prospero and Antonio, try to manipulate and control others. The Tempest explores issues of kingship, treason and betrayal.
Manipulation metaphor
- 'Colours fairer painted their foul ends'
- Prospero’s metaphor encompasses these ideas of manipulation.
- The oxymoron of 'fairer' and 'foul' indicates that Antonio understood the importance of manipulation and image in politics. He made his 'foul' deed seem 'fairer' by getting King Alonso on board and by highlighting to the people of Milan that their Duke (Prospero) had 'neglected' them.
'For your advancement'
- 'What a sleep were this / For your advancement.'
- Antonio’s antagonism (hostility) is further highlighted when he manipulates and encourages Sebastian to commit regicide (killing the King) and kill his brother, King Alonso, while sleeping.
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The line 'with colours fairer painted their foul ends' is an example of what?