In class this week we started off reading acts 1 and 2 of The Tempest. The language used in The Tempest had some of the students struggling to understand what the characters were trying to say. Mrs.Waits allowed the class to act out some of the scenes to help get a better understanding of the character’s personality and the character’s relationship with one another. Even Mrs. Waits acted out a scene for the class to help us notice the rhetoric devices used in the play with Ariel and Prospero.
At the beginning of act 2, all the passengers except Ferdinand on the ship land on this mysterious island. Gonzalo tries to brighten the mood by saying a speech about how they survived the storm. Later on Antonio and Sebastian plots but fails to murder Gonzalo and Alonso to make Sebastian King. In scene 2, Caliban swearing at Prospero because he thinks he’s about to get tortured. Prospero made Caliban his slave, even though Caliban had the island first. The character of Caliban isn’t a normal man, instead, he’s portrayed as a man that behaves like a wild animal. As a result of Caliban attacking Prospero’s daughter, Caliban receives the same treatment as if he was a wild animal too. When Stefano and Trinculo find Caliban under a cloak they did not view him as a human but rather as an unusual living creature.
When saying goodnight to my parents I always say the phrase “I love you to the moon and back” this phrase has a rhetorical device, a hyperbole. I use this exaggerated phrase to tell my parents that I love them so much. Using a hyperbole to explain how much I love my parents persuades them that the love I have for them is more than normal. Rather than saying the normal “I love you” phrase adding the hyperbole makes the phrase more sentimental and creates a greater emotional connection than the regular “I love you” phrase.
Works Cited
“The Tempest.” Scene 1, http://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/t/the-tempest/summary-and-analysis/act-ii-scene-1.
“Baby Yoda I Love You To The Moon And Back Shirt.” Piepietee, piepietee.com/tee/baby-yoda-i-love-you-to-the-moon-and-back-shirt/.
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