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Task one - table one

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5 questions

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Lines 16-23

· Prospero tells Miranda that he has always acted in her interests but that he is more than just her father

PROSPERO: ‘I have done nothing but in care of thee’ (line 16)

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Lines 22-28
· Prospero decides to tell Miranda her life story
· He has used his magic powers to make sure that no one is hurt

PROSPERO ‘And pluck my magic garment from me’ (line 23)

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Lines 29-35
· Prospero reassures Miranda that no one was hurt in the shipwreck
· Prospero has started telling Miranda about her past before but never finished the story

PROSPERO ‘there is no soul--
No, not so much perdition as an hair
Betid to any creature in the vessel’ (lines 29-31)
MIRANDA ‘You have often
Begun to tell me what I am, but stopp'd
And left me to a bootless inquisition’ (lines 33-35)

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Lines 36-43
· Prospero asks Miranda if she remembers a time before they were on the island

PROSPERO ‘thou wast not
Out three years old’ (lines 40-41)

MIRANDA ‘Had I not
Four or five women once that tended me?’ (lines 46-47)

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Lines 52-58
· Prospero reveals that he was the Duke of Milan

PROSPERO ‘Twelve year since, Miranda…
Thy father was the Duke of Milan and thou his only heir
And princess no worse issued’ (lines 54-56)