Shakespeare’s The Tempest
a small paragraph about one of these questions,. Post just ONE answer consisting of ONE analytical paragraph to ONE of the questions I pose on any of the boards about The Tempest.
For any and all of your posts,
Provide evidence, either quoting or paraphrasing from the text. You can leave out non-essential irrelevant words or sentences by using an ellipsis [. . . ], but the quotation must be able to stand on its own, with a clear and complete meaning (so that students do not necessarily have to go to the text to understand your point).
Use the analytical paragraph structure for your First Answer or First Response: these should consist of a single idea, short enough to fit a single paragraph (not a mini essay of multiple ideas and paragraphs). Remember the structure:
topic sentence (claim)
introduce evidence – try to practice using quotations as evidence, but you might use a mix of quotation and paraphrase
explain your evidence, referring back to key words or phrases or ideas from your quotations or paraphrase
end with a clincher that makes the significance of your paragraph’s discussion clear.
When you quote or paraphrase any sources, introduce these words or ideas specifying the speaker (in dialogue) or the narrator in prose. Include the title of the work, plus the Act.Scene.Line for The Tempest when you quote from Shakespeare’s play: for example V.ii.25.
you can choose which one of this 4 you want to write about:
Read Goldman’s article, “Shakespeare’s Gentle Apocalypse: The Tempest”
1.Goldman – Historical Shift and Anti-colonialism
Can we see a link between the historical shift Goldman highlights and the emergence of anti-colonialism?
2.Goldman – Historical Shift and Great Chain of Being
How might the new ideas or awareness Goldman identifies be in conflict with the traditional doctrine of the Great Chain of Being?
3.Goldman – Christianity’s Role in the Historical Shift Whether one ascribes to Christian beliefs or not, what role does Goldman suggest Christianity plays in this shift? More specifically, what accompanies the emergence of Christianity and then the Protestant Reformation?
4.Authority and Reciprocity – Ruler/Usurper
Thinking about some of the ideas Goldberg explores with respect to authority and reciprocity, compose an analytical paragraph about Ruler/Usurper relationship. What does the play suggest about the following relationships?