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Questions trace plot, character choices, language, staging, and themes in Acts 3 to 5.
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In Act 3, Ferdinand is carrying logs when Miranda enters and pities him. What major choice do they make while Prospero watches unseen?
Ariel keeps interrupting Caliban's account of Prospero by crying, “Thou liest.” What happens because Stephano thinks Trinculo said it?
The banquet appears before Alonso's party and vanishes when Ariel enters like a harpy. What does Ariel do next?
After Ariel's harpy speech, Alonso hears the sea and winds as voices of guilt. What does he say he will do?
Why does Prospero suddenly stop the wedding masque in Act 4?
Prospero and Ariel hang glittering clothing near the cell. What consequence does the trap have for the drunken conspirators?
In Act 5, Prospero “discovers” Ferdinand and Miranda playing chess. What problem does this reveal solve for Alonso?
Miranda offers to carry Ferdinand's logs and then offers herself in marriage. What motive drives her choices in the scene?
Ferdinand says “Some kinds of baseness / Are nobly undergone.” Why can he endure the “mean task” of hauling wood?
Caliban tells Stephano, “Remember / First to possess his books.” Why are the books central to his plan?
What ambition pulls Stephano into Caliban's plot against Prospero?
Ariel says he would feel pity if he were human, and Prospero answers, “The rarer action is / In virtue than in vengeance.” What does Prospero choose?
When Caliban says, “What a thrice-double ass / Was I, to take this drunkard for a god,” what change is he showing?
Ferdinand enters bearing a log, the same chore Caliban does when he enters with a burden of wood in Act 2. What contrast does this parallel create?
Caliban says, “Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, / Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.” What does this language reveal?
Ariel calls Alonso, Sebastian, and Antonio “three men of sin.” What is the phrase doing in the harpy scene?
When Prospero says, “Our revels now are ended,” and “the great globe itself” shall dissolve, what does the speech turn toward?
Miranda cries, “O brave new world, / That has such people in't!” Why is Prospero's reply, “'Tis new to thee,” dramatically ironic?
Invisible Ariel plays a tune on a tabor and pipe while Stephano, Trinculo, and Caliban plot against Prospero. What comic result does the music lead to?
What does the vanishing banquet and Ariel's harpy costume add to Act 3 as stage spectacle?
The wedding entertainment brings in Iris, Ceres, and Juno. What dramatic form is Shakespeare using here?
Prospero says he will appear “as I was sometime Milan” before facing the nobles. What does this staging choice mark?
Ariel is promised freedom, Caliban is sent to clean the cell, and the epilogue asks the audience to release Prospero. What motif links these endings?
Antonio once seized Milan, Sebastian is tempted to seize Naples, and Caliban plots to replace Prospero. What repeated theme do these acts develop?
Prospero vows, “I'll break my staff” and “I'll drown my book.” What theme does this choice develop near the end of the play?
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