Act 1 Scene 2- questions and lines
Two sentences I found hard to understand:
1. Act 1- Scene 2- Page 21- Line 145 to 152
Speaker: Prospero
This King of Naples, being an enemy
To me inveterate, hearkens my brother’s suit
Which was that he, in lieu o’ th’ premises
Of homage and I know not how much tribute,
Should presently extirpate me and mine
Out of the dukedom, and confer fair Milan,
With all the honors, on my brother; whereon,
2. Act 1- Scene 2- Page 39- Line 423 to 436
Speaker: Miranda
Which any print of goodness wilt not take,
Being capable of all ill! I pitied thee,
Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each
hour
One thing of other. When thou dist not, savage,
Know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like
A thing most brutish, I endowed thy purposes
With words that made them known. But thy vile
Race;
Though thou dist learn, had in’t which good
Natures
Could not abide to be with. Therefore wast thou
Deservedly confined into this rock,
Who hadst deserved more than a prison
Two sentences I understand and my translation:
1. Act 1- Scene 2- Page 39- Line 437 to 449
Speaker: Caliban
You taught me language, and my profit on ’t
Is I know how to curse. The red plague rid you
For learning me your language
Translation: you taught me language and how I have benefited from it. The only thing I learned from you language is how to curse
2. Act 1- Scene 2- Page 21- Line 141 to 143
Speaker: Miranda
I should sin
To think but nobly of my grandmother.
Good wombs have borne bad sons
Translation: I would sin to think that such a good grandmother would have given birth to such a bad son
Two questions about the plot of the book:
1. Why does Prospero bring them it the island and test them instead of just killing them.
2. When Prospero’s brother threw him into the boat to the island why did Prospero us his magic to stop them.
