Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 76 views

    Harpy Scene - TEMPESt

    Uploaded by

    Alpha Candy
    Ariel plays the role of a Harpy in the play. As a Harpy, he flaps his wings on the banquet table, causing the food to vanish. He then delivers a grim prophecy to Alonso, Sebastian, and Antonio, calling them sinners and threatening to drive them mad. When the men draw their swords against Ariel, he warns that their swords are useless against him. Ariel's role as a Harpy effectively reminds the three men of their past misdeeds and arouses their conscience, leaving Alonso to mourn and Sebastian and Antonio to prepare recklessly for a fight in their desperation.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Harpy Scene - TEMPESt

    Uploaded by

    Alpha Candy
    76 views5 pages
    Ariel plays the role of a Harpy in the play. As a Harpy, he flaps his wings on the banquet table, causing the food to vanish. He then delivers a grim prophecy to Alonso, Sebastian, and Antonio, calling them sinners and threatening to drive them mad. When the men draw their swords against Ariel, he warns that their swords are useless against him. Ariel's role as a Harpy effectively reminds the three men of their past misdeeds and arouses their conscience, leaving Alonso to mourn and Sebastian and Antonio to prepare recklessly for a fight in their desperation.

    Original Title

    Harpy scene_TEMPESt

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Available Formats

    PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    Ariel plays the role of a Harpy in the play. As a Harpy, he flaps his wings on the banquet table, causing the food to vanish. He then delivers a grim prophecy to Alonso, Sebastian, and Antonio, calling them sinners and threatening to drive them mad. When the men draw their swords against Ariel, he warns that their swords are useless against him. Ariel's role as a Harpy effectively reminds the three men of their past misdeeds and arouses their conscience, leaving Alonso to mourn and Sebastian and Antonio to prepare recklessly for a fight in their desperation.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pdf or txt
    76 views5 pages

    Harpy Scene - TEMPESt

    Uploaded by

    Alpha Candy
    Ariel plays the role of a Harpy in the play. As a Harpy, he flaps his wings on the banquet table, causing the food to vanish. He then delivers a grim prophecy to Alonso, Sebastian, and Antonio, calling them sinners and threatening to drive them mad. When the men draw their swords against Ariel, he warns that their swords are useless against him. Ariel's role as a Harpy effectively reminds the three men of their past misdeeds and arouses their conscience, leaving Alonso to mourn and Sebastian and Antonio to prepare recklessly for a fight in their desperation.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pdf or txt
    of 5

    2.

    What role does Ariel


    play as a Harpy? How
    does it prove to bee
    effective?

    Harpy as the name given to


    the creature with wings and
    talons of birds, but
    with faces of women. The
    episode of the play is based
    on one of the experiences
    of Virgil's Aeneas and his
    Trojan companions. They
    had prepared a meal for
    themselves when a flock of
    harpies descended on the
    food, fouling and destroy-
    ing it. The creatures were
    invulnerable, and would not
    depart until their leader had
    delivered a grim prophecy to
    Aeneas.

    Vanita Saxena/ISC/ TSVS


    In this play, Ariel plays the
    role of Harpy and flaps his
    wings on the table and the
    banquet vanishes. Then
    he starts to deliver the
    prophecy to Alonso, Sebas-
    tian and Antonio. He calls
    them sinners, whom Destiny
    made sea to blech up onto
    the island -where no man
    lives, since none of themn
    deserve to live. He would1
    make them crazy and many
    mad people are driven to kill
    themselves in desperation.
    As a reaction to such threats,
    when the courtiers draw
    their swords, he calls them
    fools and tells that he and
    his fellow Harpies carry out
    Fate's orders. Their swords
    are useless against them
    Vanita Saxena/ISC/ TSVS
    and they would be more
    successful in swinging then
    at the empty air or stabbing
    at water than trying to cut
    even one of his feathers.
    Furthermore, he calls his
    two other companions, just
    as invulnerable as himself.
    If the three sinners or their
    companions still had the
    power to hurt then, they
    would find their swords far
    too heavy to lift.
    Then, after drawing cur-
    tains to the introduction, he
    serves his purpose and re-
    minds them of their impiety
    - stealing Prospero's throne

    and throwing him and his


    innocent child into the sea,
    which now takes revenge
    on them. He continues that
    Vanita Saxena/ISC/ TSVS
    to punish them for that
    horrible crime, the higher
    powers-delaying their
    punishment, not forgetting
    about it have stirred up the
    sea and all the creatures of
    Earth against them. They
    have taken Alonso's son
    from him and have ordered
    Harpies to destroy them
    slowly in a way worse than
    sudden death could ever be.
    He will stay with them at
    every step of their way. Then
    he utters that the only way
    to protect themselves from
    the angry higher powers,
    which are ready to fall upon
    their head on the desolate
    island is to be sincerely sorry
    in their hearts for what they
    have done and to live inno-
    Vanita Saxena/ISC/ TSVS
    cent lives from that time
    onwards.
    The effectiveness of Pros-
    pero's plan of the Harpy's
    role enacted by Ariel proves
    to be efficacious when
    the three sinners became
    desperate and dangerously
    reckless at their actions,
    after hearing the warning.
    Alonso mourns while Sebas
    tian and Antonio prepare
    ecstatically for fight. Ariel's
    role as Harpy was significant
    since he has been successful
    in reminding them of their
    misdeeds and arising their
    prick of conscience.

    Vanita Saxena/ISC/ TSVS

    You might also like