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Prospero : This blue-eyed hag was hither brought with child, And here was left by th’ sailors…
Prospero : This blue-eyed hag was hither brought with child,
And here was left by th’ sailors. Thou, my slave, As thou report’st thyself, was then her servant, And for thou wast a spirit too delicate
To act her earthy and abhorr’d commands, Refusing her grand hests, she did confine thee, By help of her more potent ministers
And in her most unmitigable rage,
Into a cloven pine…..
(i)[1.0]
What leads Prospero to talk about the ‘blue-eyed hag’?
(ii)[2.0]
Why was she brought to this island?
(iii)[2.0]
What account do we get of Ariel’s suffering in the cloven pine? Who had
saved him and how?
(iv)[2.0]
How does Prospero describe the hag’s son?
(v)[2.0]
What does Prospero threaten to do to Ariel now? What effect does his threat
have on Ariel?
(vi)[1.0]
Give the meanings of the following words in the context of the passage:
abhorr’d, cloven
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From ISC 2020 English Literature Paper 1, question 1(a).