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| Character | Ariel | |
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| Gender | Male | |
| Age Range(s) | Teenager (13-19), Young Adult (20-35), Adult (36-50) | |
| Type of monologue / Character is | Descriptive, Reminiscing life story/Telling a story | |
| Type | Dramatic | |
| Period | Renaissance | |
| Genre | Drama, Comedy | |
| Description | Ariel tells Prospero how he shipwrecked the ship | |
| Location | ACT I, Scene 2 | |
Summary
The play starts with a storm hitting a ship that carries the King of Naples, Alonso, his son Ferdinand, Alonso's brother Sebastian and other characters. In the second scene we find Miranda with her father Prospero on the shore of an island close to the shipwreck. Miranda asks her father to help the people on the ship. After Prospero confesses that he is actually responsible for the shipwreck (using his magic powers), he tells her the story of his and her past, of how they got to the island. He used to be the Duke of Milan until his brother Antonio, with the help of the King of Naples, usurped his position and he was forced to flee to the island with his daughter.
After he makes Miranda fall asleep with his magic powers, he call Ariel, his spirit-servant that he sent to shipwreck Alonso's ship. In this monologue Ariel tells Prospero how he sank the ship and how he managed to get all the people on the ship to arrive on the island alive.
After he makes Miranda fall asleep with his magic powers, he call Ariel, his spirit-servant that he sent to shipwreck Alonso's ship. In this monologue Ariel tells Prospero how he sank the ship and how he managed to get all the people on the ship to arrive on the island alive.
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| ARIEL To every article. I boarded the king's ship; now on the beak, Now in the waist, the deck, in every cabin, I flamed amazement: sometime I'ld divide, And burn in many places; on the topmast, The yards and bowsprit, would I flame distinctly, Then meet and join. Jove's lightnings, the precursors O' the dreadful thunder-claps, more momentary And sight-outrunning were not; the fire and cracks Of sulphurous roaring the most mighty Neptune Seem to besiege and make his bold waves tremble, Yea, his dread trident shake. [PROSPERO My brave spirit! Who was so firm, so constant, that this coil Would not infect his reason?] ARIEL Not a soul But felt a fever of the mad and play'd Some tricks of desperation. All but mariners Plunged in the foaming brine and quit the vessel, Then all afire with me: the king's son, Ferdinand, With hair up-staring,--then like reeds, not hair,-- Was the first man that leap'd; cried, 'Hell is empty And all the devils are here.' [PROSPERO Why that's my spirit! But was not this nigh shore?] ARIEL Close by, my master. [PROSPERO But are they, Ariel, safe?] ARIEL Not a hair perish'd; On their sustaining garments not a blemish, But fresher than before: and, as thou badest me, In troops I have dispersed them 'bout the isle. The king's son have I landed by himself; Whom I left cooling of the air with sighs In an odd angle of the isle and sitting, His arms in this sad knot. [PROSPERO Of the king's ship The mariners say how thou hast disposed And all the rest o' the fleet.] ARIEL Safely in harbour Is the king's ship; in the deep nook, where once Thou call'dst me up at midnight to fetch dew From the still-vex'd Bermoothes, there she's hid: The mariners all under hatches stow'd; Who, with a charm join'd to their suffer'd labour, I have left asleep; and for the rest o' the fleet Which I dispersed, they all have met again And are upon the Mediterranean flote, Bound sadly home for Naples, Supposing that they saw the king's ship wreck'd And his great person perish. |
