In-class Notes

6/18/07

*A Tempest:
-Cesaire-black writer
*He saw what whites in colonial settings did not see.

*Student Essay:
-Usurper: to seize and hold (a position, office, power, etc.) by force or without legal right

*Pg. 372
-The Tempest: a night club!

*Shakespeare's version:
-Trouble keeping characters straight.
-The story felt long, even though it was one of the shortest plays he ever wrote.
-Miranda: air head girl, her name means miracle, or wonder.
-Trying to give us a sense of what's important
*Brothers at odds
-Star wars is retelling of other romance
-Caliban: almost the same as cannibal.
*rearrange letters to make something else
-Only two stories ever told
1)Calcification on a hill
2)Search of Mediterranean for an enchanted island
-3 stories- all alike
1)Magic flute
2)The Tempest
3) Wizard of OZ
*all having a male magic figure
-Prospero is a micro manager
*everything needs to be perfect
-Prospero, Miranda, Ariel, and Caliban all on an island.
*Ferdinand goes to island (Miranda is fascinated)
-Called Tempest- Ironic because it was a figment of their imagination- there was no tempest
-The old story= boy meets girl, but there is something in the way of getting her
*Shakespeare knew this- he made her father the obstacle.
-Senex- old and important
-Alcamene- turn lead into gold
-"We already know everything we need to know, we just forgot it."

*Check out this site to get a little better understanting of The Tempest:
http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/tempest/summary.html