 gainst my fury • Do I take part : the rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance : they being penitent, The sole drift of my purpose doth extend Not a frown further : Go, release them, Ariel ; My charms I'll break, their senses I'll restore, • And...  Studies of Shakspere - Page 106by Charles Knight - 1868 - 560 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sidney Homan - Drama - 1988 - 248 pages
...regenerate his former enemies; thus, he declares, Though with their high wrongs I am struck to th' quick, Yet with my nobler reason 'gainst my fury Do...drift of my purpose doth extend Not a frown further. (5.1.25-30) The storm is not only a means of bringing those who wronged Prospero to the island, but... | |
 | Marco Mincoff - Drama - 1992 - 148 pages
...Passion as they, be kindlier mov'd than thou art? Though with their high wrongs I am strook to th' quick, Yet, with my nobler reason, 'gainst my fury...drift of my purpose doth extend Not a frown further. (5.1.21-30) It is an unusually rational sort of motivation for Shakespeare—from the head and not... | |
 | Wendell John Coats - Political Science - 1994 - 180 pages
...unusual justice meted out in the drama. Prospero. Though with their high wrongs I am struck to th' quick, Yet with my nobler reason 'gainst my fury Do...extend Not a frown further. Go, release them, Ariel. My charms I'll break, their senses I'll restore, And they shall be themselves. 50 Moreover, Prospero... | |
 | Clive Barker, Simon Trussler - Drama - 1994 - 108 pages
...Passion as they, be kindlier moved than thou art? Though with their high wrongs I am struck to th' quick, Yet with my nobler reason 'gainst my fury Do...extend Not a frown further. Go, release them, Ariel. This is certainly a speech of self-examination. The interpretive question is whether it also represents... | |
 | David G. Allen, Robert A. White - History - 1995 - 332 pages
...Prospero's forgiveness is not the free and charitable gift he led us to expect when he said: . . . the rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance: they...drift of my purpose doth extend Not a frown further. (5.1.27-30) But he does not have them drawn and quartered as a ruler under similar circumstances in... | |
 | Amitai Etzioni, David Carney - Religion - 1997 - 208 pages
...myself, One of their kind, that relish all as sharply Passion as they, be kindlier moved than thou art? Though with their high wrongs I am struck to the quick,...drift of my purpose doth extend Not a frown further. These brief passages from the closing of Shakespeare's The Tempest contain many profound but controversial... | |
 | J.G. Murphy - Law - 1998 - 260 pages
...myself, One of their kind, that relish all as sharply Passion as they, be kindlier moved than thou art? Though with their high wrongs I am struck to the quick,...drift of my purpose doth extend Not a frown further. 1. INTRODUCTION These brief passages from the closing of Shakespeare's The Tempest contain many profound... | |
 | Laurie Rozakis - Fiction - 1999 - 406 pages
...champions "virtue" over "vengeance" and abjures his magic. Though with their high wrongs I am strook to th' quick, Yet, with my nobler reason, 'gainst my fury...drift of my purpose doth extend Not a frown further. The play concludes when Prospero steps out of character to deliver an epilogue asking the audience... | |
 | Robert S. Miola - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 206 pages
...Passion as they, be kindlier moved than thou art? Though with their high wrongs I am struck to th' quick, Yet with my nobler reason 'gainst my fury Do...drift of my purpose doth extend Not a frown further. (5. i. 21-30) Pitying the suffering of his prisoners, recognizing their common humanity, Prospero puts... | |
 | Jennifer Mulherin, Abigail Frost - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2001 - 38 pages
...other spirits are to the audience. She Prospero's nobility Vet with my nobler reason 'gainst my fwy Do I take part: the rarer action is In virtue than...drift of my purpose doth extend Not a frown further. Act v Sc i Ferdinand Miranda IM / • . \ H I 7 Ferdinand on Prospero O! she is ten times more gentle... | |
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