Movie Questions: The Tempest- ACT 1
Character Identification:
1. Prospera2. Miranda3. Ariel4. Caliaban5. FerdinandQuestions:
1. What is the setting? What is a tempest?
2. What “natural” event is happening at the opening of the film/play?
3. Who is on shore, causing this “natural” event?
4. What does Miranda ask Prospera (her mother) to do about the others?
5. Prospera provides background information about how she and Miranda
came to their current location. What is the reason?
6. Who has Prospera shipwrecked?
7. Why does Ariel help Prospera?
8. What is Ariel responsible for? What is his current plan and/or bidding by
Prospera?
9. What does Prospera tell Ariel she will do for him in two days?
10. How did Caliban become Prospera’s slave?
11. Who is Sycorax?
12. What does Prospera threaten to do to Caliban?
13. Who is separated from the rest of the men who are shipwrecked?
14. How does Ariel introduce himself to the lost prince?
15. How do Miranda and the lost prince feel upon seeing each other?
16. When the prince and Prospera try to fight, how does she defeat him?
17. Where is Prospera leading the lost prince?
18. What does Miranda say to encourage him?
19. What instructions does Prospera give to Ariel as she is leading the prince?
20. Why do you think that Prospera treats Ariel different than Caliban?