The Tempest Final Activity (Comic Strip)
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- Act 1 Scene 1
- The king and nobles are on a ship and caught in a violent storm. The ship begins to sink, leaving the survivors to wash up on a nearby island.
- "Mercy on us!" "We split, we split" (Shakespeare 54).
- Act 1 Scene 2
- Prospero and Miranda just witnessed the shipwreck. Miranda is worried, but Prospero assures her that no one was harmed and tells her who she is and where she comes from.
- "Wipe thou thine eyes; have comfort. the direful spectacle of the wrack, which touched the very virtue of compassion in thee, I have with such provision in mine art so safely ordered that there is no soul- no, not so much peredition as an hair. Betid to any creature in the vessel which thou heards't cry, which thou saw'st sink. Sit down; for thou must now know further" (Shakespeare 25-34).
- "Say this were death that now hath seized them. Why, they were no worse than now they are. There be that can rule Naples as well as he that sleeps, lords that can prate as amply and unnecessarily as this Gonzalo...Oh, that you bore the mind that I do, what a sleep were this for your advancement! Do you understand me?" (Shakespeare 252-260).
- Act 2 Scene 1
- Alonso, Sebastian, Antonio, and Gonzalo search for Prince Ferdinand. Antonio nearly convinces Sebastian to kill Alonso and take the throne while Gonzalo and Alonso are asleep.
- Act 2 Scene 2
- Caliban hides from Trinculo under his coat, thinking he is a spirit, but Trinculo joins him. Stephano sees the men's legs and mistakes them for a monster until he recognizes Trinculo's voice.
- "Four legs and two voices—a most delicate monster! His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend; his backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract. If all the wine in my bottle will recover him, I will help his ague. Come" (Shakespeare 81-84).
- Act 3 Scene 1
- "My husband then?" (Shakespeare 88).
- Miranda speaks to Ferdinand as he works as Prospero's servant, and then he accepts her proposal of marriage. Prospero secretly watches and approves.
- "Ay, with a heart as willing as bondage e’er of freedom. Here’s my hand." (Shakespeare 89).
- Act 3 Scene 2
- Drunkenly, Caliban plots with Trinculo and Stephano to kill Prospero and make Stephano king of the island. Ariel whispers that Caliban is a liar.
- "Thou liest" (Shakespeare 41).
- "I say by sorcery he got this isle; from me he got it. If thy greatness will revenge it on him—for I know thou dar’st, but this thing dare not—" (Shakespeare 49-51).
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