World Literature
Part 1 (answer two of the first 6, plus question 7):
What do you learn about the characters in Act I that is significant?
Why is the history behind the current events important?
What is the position and job of Ariel? what shapes his character?
What is the position and job of Caliban? what shapes his character?
What is the picture of courtly society here? And how does the insular or "natural" society compare?
Why does Shakespeare make Prospero a magician (and what are the rules of this magic)?
Required. * Explain the nature of (and tension between) power and love developed in The Tempest. Use at least two developed paragraphs.
Part 2: Unit Review (answer two):
What is the foggiest point in the lecture or reading? This foggy point must be detailed, concrete, and clear (to receive credit).
Which character is most developed or complex, and how?
Why does Prospero lose power both at the start of the story, and at the end of the play?