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REVENGE - Coggle Diagram
REVENGE
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Example 1: "Cell", ‘a tempestuous noise of thunder and lightening’
Prospero refers to the island as a “cell” using the motif of imprisonment to suggest the island is a prison.
Ironically, Prospero is preoccupied with his physical imprisonment when his metaphorical prison is his pursuit of revenge that prevents him from being “set free”.
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CONTEXT: Shakespeare echoes Renaissance philosopher Francis Bacon’s ideology that revenge is a destructive passion that must be tempered by moral reason, rather the need for the Christian value of forgiveness
EXAMPLE 3: "duty", “Break out of [his] cell”.
Colliding with Shakespeare, Atwood rejects the Christian metanarrative and restoration of Christian values, indicative of her secular context, where forgiveness of self proves to be crucial for Felix to accept his reality, the finality of daughter’s death and his own faults.
As Prospero frees Ariel, Felix becomes aware of the imprisoning nature of his illusionary world and realises that he must “Break out of [his] cell”.
as it is his “duty” to liberate Miranda from his mind where he idealises her and thus, limits her identity.
DISSONANCE: Atwood transforms Shakespeare’s motif of imprisonment, with Hagseed representing the psychological barrier of grief. A dissonance emerges as while Prospero was distracted by “secret studies”, Felix was “distracted by grief”, the loss of his only child, demonstrating how physiologically imprisoning grief can be.
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EXAMPLE 1: “Too late, too late”
Felix’s physiological tempest is alluded to through his inner monologue, “Too late, too late” , using repetition to highlight Felix’s agony and overwhelming, incomprehensible grief
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allows men to be emotional through their transformation challenging patriarchal standards of masculinity
Through Prospero, Shakespeare demonstrates revenge can be a psychologically imprisoning mindset that prevents one from engaging in self-reflection.