Rashad Young

9 English

Mr. Salsich

1.8.2009!

A Storm of Emotion;

An Analysis of a Passage in The Tempest

Shakespeare uses many unique fast words in this passage that are all extremely apt.. “That a brother should Be so perfidious!” Prospero says this because his brother Antonio backstabbed him and took over his position as Duke. Prospero’s brother was so disloyal to him he uses “perfidious” and excellent fast word that gives the sentence the right little touch. Prospero also says that he loved his brother, “He whom next thyself […] I loved,” therefore Prospero seems to be pessimistic about the choice that he had made, but to him self it was the right thing to do. Miranda seems to have the opposite feeling. She thinks that her father should never have sunk the ship in the first place. The last part of this passage that stood out to me was when Prospero said, “The government I cast upon my brother […] grew stranger, being transported and rapt in secret studies.” As Antonio gained more and more power from Prospero giving it to him, secret studies started to happen without the Duke himself knowing. Though Prospero could have gone through another route called forgiveness, he chose not to. All of these short quotes have at least one word that sticks out to me and helped create a excellent explanation.