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The Theme of Power: Act 1 Scene 2 - Prospero and Ariel

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English

Shakespearean Comedy - The Tempest

Which of the following is a feature of Shakespearean comedy?

Which of the following would have stood in 'the yard'?

Which of the following are key themes in The Tempest?

﻿Welcome everybody to our lesson for English today, and we're going to be continuing "The Tempest." It's Mr Dyke here. Things I'd like you to do first is make sure that you've got a black or blue pen ready, choose another pen, so you can mark your work today, and clear away any other distractions that you might have. Whilst you're clearing away your distractions, check to make sure that you've got your notes from previous lesson, because they might be really helpful for you today. Once you are ready, write down today's title, which is on the screen. "The Theme of Power: Act 1 Scene 2, Prosperoo and Ariel." Do that now. Okay, we're going to start by recapping our previous lesson, where we looked at Prosperoo and Miranda and their relationship in Act 1, Scene 2. So I want to show you as always three images. Each one of these images represents a key part of the previous lesson and a key part of what we learned about Prosperoo and Miranda and that scene from last lesson. So I would like you to do is jot down everything you can remember from memory using the images to help you. Pause down and just spend two minutes doing that. okay. Here are some possible answers that you may have written down. These are the most important ones I want you to remember. So Prosperoo has used his powers to bring his brother and former nobles to the Island via a shipwreck. Prosperoo decides to tell Moranda the story of their origins. So where they came from, how they came to exist on this Island. And Prosperoo, previously a Duke, was betrayed by Antinio and abandoned out at sea. And that's what we learned about their history. Okay? I'm sure you have lots of other really brilliant notes and previously that way you can really add to them and remember from them. These are the key three aspects of the last scene. I wanted you to remember the most. And this is the same scene that we're going to be reading about today. And in Act 1, Scene 2, it's the same scene, but it's a development of it, where we're going to be introduced to another really important character. We're also going to see the way that Prosperoo exercises his power on the Island through a different character this time. So as always, as we read, I want you to make sure you summarise each section that I read, so it might be just this slide. And I want you to make sure that you're writing down any key vocabulary that I explain and any key concepts I explain too. Feel free to pause at each slide so that you've got time to do that and then resume when you're ready and I will continue on. So let's start with a little bit of a summary around these two characters and where this scene will go. So firstly, we need to recognise that Ariel is a spirit. So remember how we said in Shakespeare in comedy, they're often unexplained elements like magic and spirits, etc. So we've got Ariel is a spirit and servant of Prospero. In this scene, Ariel reports the details of the tempest to Prospero and asks for his freedom. Prospero explains that he will be free soon. So we're going to see what that relationship is like because Ariel is a servant, but they've got an amount of respect for each other, which we will see. However, Ariel will ask when he can be left free. So he doesn't have to serve Prospero anymore. We'll see what happens when he does that. Okay. What we've got to remember is Ariel is a spirit, so kind of like a fairy type creature and with different powers and the ability to become invisible and to affect other people. And he's very much used by Prospero all throughout the play to add in these elements of comedy. Let's get ready to read that. Ariel starts us off by addressing Prospero. All hail, great master. Grave sir, hail. I come to answer thy best pleasure, be it to fly, to swim, to dive into the fire, to ride on the curled clouds, to thy strong bidding, task Ariel and all is quality. So Ariel, think about some of the adjectives being used there, where Ariel is describing Prospero as a great master. And also think about what Ariel is saying. So to answer thy best pleasure, Ariel is basically saying, I will do whatever you wish me to do. Whatever your pleasures are, whatever you want? Ariel will do it really well. Prospero, hostile spirit performed to point the tempest I bade thee? So Prospero basically saying, how have you done what I asked and created that storm. To every article, I boarded the King's ship. Now in the big, now in the waist, in the deck, every cabin I flamed amazement. Sometimes I divide and burn in many places. on the topmast, the yards and the bowsprit I would flame distinctly. Ariel is saying I did what you asked me to really high standard in the best way I possibly could. My breath spirit who was so firm, so constant. And this coil would not infect his reason not a soul, but felt a fever of the mad and played some tricks of desperation. All but mariners plunged in the fobbing bride and quit the vessel. Then all of fire with me. The King son, Ferdinand with hair up-staring then like reeds, not hair, was the first man that leaped and cried, "Hell is empty and all the devils are here." Why that's my spirit. But was not this nigh shaw. Ariel. Close by, my master Prospero. Are they, Ariel, safe? So, Prospero is trying to get reassurance from Ariel, but there's not been any dangers and that is not kill any of the people in the shipwreck. Ariel is saying and commenting on who has escaped and how. And that Ferdinand made his way to shoe. So pausing here. Here's a quick question. How did Ariel and Prospero address each other and behave towards one another? So use these sentence starters, just to help you answer this question. So Ariel speaks how towards Prospero and Prospero seems to, so of think about how Prospero behaves and speaks to Ariel. If you need to, you can always rewind and look again, I'll just pause now, spend five minutes answering these two questions and then resume when you're ready. Let's keep going then. So Prospero. Ariel, by charge exactly is performed, but there's more work. What is the time of the day? So can you notice how Prospero is saying, recognising yes, you're doing your job, but there's more things to do. Ariel. Is there more toil? Toil is just hard work. Since thou dost give me pains, let me remember thee, what thou hast promised, which is not yet performed me. So Ariel is asking is more work? And he's actually saying that, let me remind you what you've promised me. So, Ariel's actually kind of challenging Prospero here. How now moody? What is thou canst demand? Ariel. My Liberty. So Liberty is freedom. It might be worth just writing that word down. Now liberty is freedom. And Ariel is saying, you promised that you would free me from your servitude. So, you know, when are you going to do that? And Prospero don't think he's reacting. Or is going to react very well to that. Before the time be out? No more. I prithee, remember I have done thee worthy service, told thee no lies, made thee no mistakings, served without grudge or grumblings. Thou didst promise to bate me a full year. So Ariel is reminding Prospero. Look who I've done for you. I don't know where the service I've been loyal to you. I've not made a single mistake. Trying to persuade Prospero, that he needs to let him free. Okay. Pausing and just making a note of exactly what we've read there. So what has Ariel asked of Prospero? And how has Prospero responded? So Ariel has questioned, what Prospero however, thinks what? So just pause that two or three minutes answering those questions and then resuming once you all finished. Okay. Let's continue. So Prospero is going to now remind Ariel of his place. Dost thou forget from what a torment I did free. Ariel. No. Thou dust, and think'st it much to tread the ooze of the salt deep, to rule upon the sharp wind of the North, to do business in the veins of the earth. When it is baked with frost. I do not, sir. Prospero. Now liest malignant thing. Malignant punch means disgusting. Hast thou forgot the foul with Sycorax, who with age and envy was grown into a hoop? Hast thou forgot her? By help of her more potent ministers and then her most unmitigable rage, into a cloth and pine, within which rift imprisoned thou didst painfully remain a dozen years within which space she died and left thee there, where thou didst vent thy groans, to lay upon the damned, which Sycorax could not again undo. It was mine art, When I arrived and heard thee, that made me gape the pine and let thee out. So Prospero is reminding Ariel, that's something he's done for him. Did you pick upon exactly what that was? Ariel. I thank thee, master. If thou more murmur'st, I will rend an oak and peg thee in his knotty entrails till though has howled away twelve twinters So Prospero, threatening Ariel there, saying, if you complain anymore, if you murmur any more about your freedom, I will entrap you in a tree for another 12 years, which is exactly what Sycorax acted that Prospero freed Ariel from. Pardon, master. I will be corresponded to command and do my spiriting gently. Do so and after two days, I will discharge thee. So Ariel is kind of apologising, pardon master and Prospero saying, you know, you've got a few days and then I will give you some freedom, but I've got some more work. That's my nobel master. Noble just mean good and honourable. What shall I do? Say what? What shall I do? Okay. Final questions here. So what does Prospero remind Ariel? So what does it remind him of? Okay. And how does Ariel now change his tone towards Prospero. So Prospero reminds Ariel that an Ariel now does what. When you resume the video next, you're going to see some answers to the questions that we've been covering. So be ready with your other coloured pen when you resume the video to mark your work. Okay, let's go through our answers then. The first question I asked you was how do Ariel and Prospero address each other and behave to one another. So I've written a few comments here. So yours might be similar at anything you're missing. Ariel speaks with deep respect towards Prospero, revering him. To revere someone is to respect and look up to someone, referring to his muster. So it would be worth just adding that quotation master, if you haven't written that down already. And you will also notice Ariel used sir a few times. and kept describing Prospero as noble. He was trying to really demonstrate respect as the servant. Prospero talks with kindness and authority to Ariel referring to him as a good spirit, but also with expectations of servitude. So Prospero is kind, and he does respect Ariel, but does command and definitely asks Ariel to do things. What has Ariel asked of Prospero and how has Prospero responded? Well, Ariel has asked Prospero for freedom or his 'liberty' to use the quotation from the text. And Prospero has reacted angrily, reminding Ariel of how he freed Ariel from the evil web Sycorax who once resided on the Island. So Prospero did react quite angrily, basically questioned Ariel. Have you forgotten what I did for you? And what does Prospero remind Ariel of? How does Ariel now change his tone? So Ariel has changed his tone whereby he addresses Prospero with the utmost respect, acknowledging his power and authority. So Ariel does kind of back down and he goes back to being really respectful. Prospero has promised Ariel that they will only be some more jobs to do before he earns his freedom, and Ariel is thankful of this. So Ariel does back down and said, okay, and describes Prospero noble and behaves in a polite servant like way towards Prospero. Okay. So I'd like us to just now start to explore what we've learned about the relationship between these two characters and also about the power here. Cause we've talked about the theme of power in the play so far with the power of the storm at the start, but also the power that Prospero has over Miranda his daughter. So here I've given you four statements and I just want you to read them on the screen. Okay? So Prosperoo lets Ariel do whatever he wants. Prospero is commanding an authoritative. So that means authority towards Ariel. Ariel demonstrate obedience and is not autonomous. That means he can't do what he wants. Ariel is demanding of Prospero and asks for things. So I want you to decide which option or options are the most accurate. And I want you to pause the video and write down at least one. There might be more than one, but which ones do you think are accurate and why? Pause the video and just spend three or four minutes doing that. Okay. Now my choices are these three. So I think that Prospero definitely is commanding and is definitely authoritative, demonstrates the authority over Ariel. I also think Ariel is obedient because he does what Prospero asked and doesn't technically have his freedom. So he's not fully autonomous. So those two statements are definitely true. Now I think some of you might have been wanting to write down number four, Ariel is demanding of Prospero. Now he did question his freedom. But I wouldn't describe Ariel as demanding because Ariel is mostly obedient and mostly does what he says. He was just asking about his freedom because it had been promised, but Ariel doesn't normally behave in that demanding way, and I don't think it really shows is that enough. Number one is certainly false. Prospero lets Ariel do whatever he wants. That's not the case. Is it? That's just not true. Okay. Let's explore this question. So I'd like you to pause the video now and write that question down. How is the relationship between Prospero and Ariel presented by Shakespeare? Qestion mark. Pause down and write the question down. Okay. So there are four statements which we'll get, they're going to get us going here. So I'll try to summarise four different ways we could describe this relationship. So I've said it's actually warm and loving. You could say that there's this kind of element of respect between the two. And there's quite a lot of walled fat because we've seen words like nobel being used. We've seen good and brave and kind of praise being given between the two characters. You can say, it's a relationship of power and control where one person is determined to be in charge of the other one. That's probably true. You could say it's a relationship of master and servant where they each have a really specific role to play. You could also say it's generally one of respect because they do have respect for one another and they do treat each other with respect and politeness. So I want you just to pause now and decide which of those four statements you would like to write about, or maybe which one you think is the truest. Pause now and do that. Okay. Now we're going to just put together a bit of an answer. And in this lesson, I've sort of given you a framework to use. You're going to start with this particular statement, Prospero and Ariel's relationship is portrayed as, okay. And that's where you're going to write about the bit, the one that you chose, the one that you wanted to focus on. So maybe there, you're going to write about how it's one of respect or it's one of warmth and love or one of power and control. And then as you can see through the framework, for example, is where you're going to write about a particular moment and then use the supporting quotation. Then you're going to say, which suggests that. So you're going to write about what does that tell you? What do you understand? Furthermore, I want you to bring in a second quotation. Can you bring in a second quatation, which supports the first and what does that suggest? And then going to just zoom in on what are the particular word classes that you see, or maybe it's a technique that you've seen and you're going to quote that, and analyse that in as much detail as possible. It's similar to what we did last lesson previously. However, this time I'm giving you less. So pause now, and I want you to spend 10 to 12 minutes writing your paragraph. So you might decide to do a second paragraph and develop it further. At the end of that, 10 to 12 minutes, resume the video. And I will give you an example and give you some feedback that you may have. You may be able to use to improve further. Pause now and do that. Okay. Let's look at an example in order to mark our work. So with your other coloured pen, I want you to tick when you've done certain things, which I've done in my answer. And if you think that you can improve yours using mine, then afterwards, you're going to do that. So firstly, we have that statement, which I started to give you. Prospero and Ariel's relationship is portrayed as, and I have said one ruled by authority and obedience. So I've used those two words. Give yourself a tick, if you've used one idea there. So for example, one ruled by authority, but give yourself a second tick, or you could add an idea. And if you've missed this, if you brought in another idea, so you could say, authority and obedience, or maybe you can say respect and power or something like that. So give yourself a tick for each idea. Despite the mutual respect, present, for example, comma. So check you've got like comma after, for example. Ariel insists on addressing Prospero as sir, and I've quoted, 'Sir'. So, so give yourself a tick if you used that quotation. And you've referred to a moment from the text. Can you check the reviews, quotation marks and that's wrapped around just a quotation. A formal tone, which suggests that he perceives Prospero as an authority figure, perhaps one which he wishes to please or impress. Give yourself a tick. If you've explained your quotation, which suggests, so what do you learn from the quotation? Furthermore, Prospero makes sur to address Ariel as, my good spirit. So giving yourself a second tick for second quotation, suggesting that he wants to acknowledge Ariel's loyalty and obedience demonstrating his gratitude for his efforts. Gratitude is this idea of, you know, you're liking something and you welcome it and you respect it. Okay. So again, giving yourself a tick, if you've explained the second quotation. However, the personal pronoun, 'my' could imply an inherent sense of ownership on the part of Prospero, who is demonstrating his own rule of the Island, following his banishment from Milan. So here I've zoomed in on the word 'my', and that word 'my' is a personal pronoun. So give yourself a tick, firstly, if you've used passive, you've said what world class it is, or maybe you've said, it's a phrase, or maybe you've said it's a particular technique, that's relevant and give yourself a second tick where you've actually quoted that word or phrase 'my' could imply and then give yourself a final tick, if you've explained why that word might be significant or that phrase might be significant. Once you've checked your answer, I want you to spend at least five minutes now improving that further. So it could be that you write a second paragraph and try and make it better, could be that you just add in and improve the paragraph you've already written. But then you're going to reflect on my feedback at this moment now in the lesson. So pause now, stand up. At least five minutes doing that. Okay. That brings us to the end of the lesson. Thank you as always for your brilliant focus. And I look forward to next time.

The Theme of Power: Act 1 Scene 2 - Prospero and Ariel

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