Hey Everyone,

As you guys may know, quarter 4 has strated! this quater in english we are reading The Tempest by William Shakespeare and an other book which i don’t know the name of. We already finished Act 1 scene 1 and 2 but we have to read scene 2 again so that we will understand it better.

Now the reason I am writing this blog post is because we have to write 2 lines we understand, 2 lines we don’t understand and 2 questions about te plot of the book.
Here they are!!!

Well I understood these 2 pasages:
- Act 1, Scene 2, Line 552 to 554 “Miranda: There’s nothind ill can dwell in such a temple. If the ill spirit have so fair a house, good things will strive to dwell with ‘t” This says: This man has no evil inside him. If the devil is inside such body, good things will come with it.
- Act 1, Scene 2, Line 586 to 588 “Miranda: My affections are then most humble. I have no ambition to see a goodlier man.” This means: My love is not poor. I have no need to search for a more handsome man.

And i didnt understand these:
- Act 1, Scene 2, Line 385 to 387 “Caliban: A wicked as e’er my mother brushed with raven’s feathers from unwholesme fen drop on you both” I suspect it has something to do with his mothers magic.
- Act 1, Scene 2, Line 41 to 42 “Sebastiaan: A pox o’ your throat, you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog!” I think Sebastiaan is trying to make the workers work harder but I am not sure.

Some questions that I have about the plot is that in Act 1, Scene 2 is says that Caliban is trapped in a cave, though it also says that he is the one that gets wood for Miranda and Prospero. How can this be is he can’t leave the cave? Also a question that bothers me is that Ferdinand says that his father and all his friends have died, but that couldn’t be true becuase then there would not really be a book. So then why does he say that when he saw everyone in the ship still alive?