Servitude - Quotes
English Lit: AQA GCSE The Tempest, topic 11.2.5
Quotations About Enslavement
Characters such as Ariel and Caliban are enslaved in the play.
Prospero threatens Ariel
- Prospero threatens Ariel with imprisonment in a tree again: 'If thou more murmur’st.'
Propero's promises of freedom
- When Prospero has gotten everything he wants he sets Ariel free: 'Then to the elements / Be free, and fare thou well.'
Ferdinand enjoys slavery
- Ferdinand carries out the service to Prospero while admiring Miranda, who makes 'my labours pleasures'.
Caliban - Prospero's slave
- 'His art is of such power.'
- Caliban - afraid of Prospero.
- Caliban is reminded of his role in the hierarchy on the island through the repeated use of 'slave' and 'monster.'
Last line of the play
- 'Let your indulgence set me free'
- The last line of the play is both Prospero asking to be freed from the island before returning to Milan, and Shakespeare pleading the audience to show their gratitude and appreciation by clapping.
Test yourself on Servitude - Quotes
What does Ferdinand say of Miranda while carrying out his services to Prospero?