Year 9

Evaluating: Prospero's Moral Principles

Year 9

Evaluating: Prospero's Moral Principles

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Key learning points

  1. In this lesson, we will evaluate and cast judgment on whether Prospero is a benevolent or malevolent character in the play, by exploring some of his key moments.

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5 Questions

Q1.
What has Prospero given up at the end of the play?
Caliban
his daughter
Correct answer: his magic
Q2.
Who does Prospero direct his epilogue at?
King Alonso
Miranda
Correct answer: the audience
Q3.
What does Shakespeare aim to do with his comedy plays, according to this final passage in the play?
communicate key themes
Correct answer: entertain and please
scare the audience
Q4.
How has Prospero behaved towards those that have wronged him?
angrily as he is now leaving them on the island
fearfully as he has given up his magic
Correct answer: with forgiveness and reconciliation as they are now travelling home together
Q5.
How is the play resolved as a comedy?
Caliban is killed
Correct answer: Miranda and Ferdinand are to be married
Prospero gets his revenge

5 Questions

Q1.
Evaluation is...
Correct answer: making a judgment
to place ideas together, creating a contrast
working out good and bad
Q2.
Principles are...
a judgment
Correct answer: the foundations of someone's values
what is good or bad about someone
Q3.
Morals are...
the foundations of someone's values
Correct answer: what makes a person good or bad
when we judge something
Q4.
Shakespeare's final idea communicated to the audience is...
Prospero is evil
Correct answer: that the audience must judge the characters in the play
that these were true events
Q5.
We know The Tempest is a comedy because...
Correct answer: Miranda and Ferdinand are to be married
the good characters are happy at the end
they all good home at the end