Comparing your two key scenes from the Tempest

• Ideas

• Performance

• Character

• Language

SAT mark criteria for Shakespeare reading response

• Band 5: • Clear focus on the question and use of relevant quotations from both extracts. • Clear understanding of how characters use language in both extracts. • Creates an argument with well-chosen reference to the text to justify

comments. • Band 6: • Coherent analysis of the text in relation to the question. • Appreciation of the effects of features of language in both extracts. • Creates a well-developed argument with comments and precisely selected

references to the text integrated appropriately.

Both bands require: • integrated quotations • ongoing links to both extracts • sentences that make a point, embed a quotation and explore implications

relevant to the question in detail • creation of an argument - a chain of linked points that respond to the question

with a point of view that might be maintained or reconsidered if appropriate.

How do the following extracts explore the theme of revenge and justice?

1. In this extract, Prospero organises Ariel and Miranda and seeks Caliban.

‘Hast thou, spirit, Performed to point the tempest that I bade thee?’

2. In this extract, Prospero reveals his true identity to his brothers and reclaims the title of Duke of Milan.

‘But this rough magic / I here abjure’

Act 1

The storm

Ariel’s spell Caliban’s plot

A celebration of love: the masque A series of

revelations: action or report?

The Tempest

Act 2 Act 3 Act 4 Act 5

REPORT

ACTION

Ferdinand & Miranda fall in

love

Alonso, Antonio,

Sebastian, Gonzalo

shipwrecked

Antonio’s plot

Trinculo, Stephano, Caliban – a new master

Prospero and Miranda

Prospero and Ariel

Prospero and Caliban

Ferdinand’s test

The imaginary feast and Alonso’s shame

Prospero’s warning to Ferdinand

Ariel tells of

Caliban’s plot

Prospero reveals his identity to

Alonso

Prospero reveals the lovers to the

nobles

Prospero reveals Caliban’s plot

Caliban, Stephano and

Trinculo are tricked and chased by

Ariel’s magic

Act 1 scene 2: Relevance of this to themes of revenge and justice? Analyse lang/character/dramatic device?

We have just heard of the scale and ‘success’ of the storm

Ariel asks for his liberty

Prospero’s response

Waking Miranda and seeking Caliban

Act 5 scene 1:

Relevance of this to themes of revenge and justice? Analyse lang/character/dramatic device?

Key quote?

We hear how the King and his followers fare

Prospero reflects on this

Prospero’s soliloquy on the power of the magic he intends to abjure

What views of revenge and justice are explored?