Discovery Questions on The Tempest

Discuss the iambic pentameter and Shakespeares use of it.

Verse is poetry
Commoners use pros
Shakespeare uses iambic pentameter to distinguish between the
characters and make the speech musical and rhythmic.

The concept of discovery may be conveyed differently in and

through texts, but the result for responders is a deeper
understanding of self and the world.
Responders make discoveries through what the characters discover,
about yourself and the world, which you live.

What discoveries does Miranda make over the course of the

play? How does this change her understanding of the world?
She discovered her:
Origin, background, childhood
Discovers compassion,
Independence- by following her own heart and thoughts
Discovers a kind of evil through Caliban and her father being
kicked out
Discovers sexuality
Love- First time in her life she experience the sweetness of
being with someone forever.
New people- she realizes that there are more beautiful people
out there and not just her father and Caliban.
Discovers possibilities, which exist outside this island, discover
a different kind of world.

Discoveries have the ability to inform and alter an individuals

perception of self and the world around them. This can be seen in
the play, The Tempest written by William Shakespeare in 1611,
which explores the different discoveries made by Miranda
throughout the course of the play. In this play Miranda is at an age
where she is becoming conscious of the world around her. Her first
discovery is her realisation that there is a real need for compassion
in this world when she observes the tempest at sea and the
possibility of human suffering. Soon after she is made aware of her
childhood and her royal background before discovering love and a
kind of independence on meeting her first and only love, Ferdinand.

Through the examination of The Tempest, Miranda discovers

compassion for the first time when she sees those people suffering
as she has never experienced seeing other people suffer and her
response was O, I have suffered/With those that I saw suffer! From
this quote, we can see that Miranda is suffering from the empathy
she feels for them, she puts herself in their position and think for
them. She understands the danger of the storm and the result that
the storm causes. She also does not want any of them getting hurt.
Also add the fact that it forces her to please her father from
stopping the storm.

Following on, she discovers her background and the readers

discover that she is a grounded character who seems to not care
about her background and it would not change her personality in
any type of way. She does not understand the power of being a
princess and the highness in the hierarchy.

Miranda also discovers evil in the world, from which is caused by

Caliban who attempted to rape her and the betrayal which result
Prospero being kicked out of his land. The use of descriptive words
in My false brother/Awaked an evil nature builds an intensity of
ideas on the subject of betrayal. This allows Miranda to realise that
people are not always the way you thought they are and that people
will change over time through various of reasons. With the Caliban
incidence, she understands that Caliban is of a evil nature and calls
him an Abhorrd slave. On the other hand, she discovers that
other than evil, there is love in this world. The first sight she saw
Ferdiland, she feels in love with him and she calls him A thing
divine, for nothing natural / I ever saw so noble" (1.2.498-500).