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so are you telling me that this guy singlehandedly created MINDMAPPING... a tool used in practically every classroom today and that I probably should further implement into my notetaking????

hmm

it's well written and engaging, but there is a lot of drugs, alcohol, sex etc, it just changed perspective a few pages ago and I didn't read the name above the chapter but still noticed a few pages in... telling how good the writing is and their unique personalities

it's well written and engaging, but there is a lot of drugs, alcohol, sex etc, it just changed perspective a few pages ago and I didn't read the name above the chapter but still noticed a few pages in... telling how good the writing is and their unique personalities

lots of good tips throughout, nice visuals

premise nice obviously

*chapters 1-3 were a little repetitive, could be condensed imo

okkk

“You're talking as if Miranda is just a rag doll. As if she’s just lying around with her legs open, draping herself over the furniture like wet spaghetti with a sign on her saying, Rape Me. But it wouldn’t be like that. First off, she’s a strong girl. She hasn’t been tied up in corsets and stuffed into glass slippers and such at court. She’s a tomboy; she’s been clambering all over that island since she was three.

“Then they stab Prospero, because the stupid klutz has let Ariel go free by then, what an idiot, so Prospero’s not magic any more. They go to deal with Gonzalo, who’s halfway dead of fright anyway, but he has a stroke before they need to kill him, and he just falls over. Then they rape Miranda—sorry, Anne-Marie, but that’s how it would go down—and they include Caliban in on the rape..."

(SnakeEye Antonio ending)

“My brave spirit!” he cries. He’d like to give her a hug,
but that’s not possible. Prospero and Ariel never touch:
how can you touch a spirit? Right now he can’t even see
her. He’ll have to be content with the voice.

(Felix reflecting on Miranda's "decision" to understudy Ariel where Miranda and Ariel are both "spirits")

Miranda’s made a decision: she’ll be understudying
Ariel—surely he can’t raise any objections to that.
How clever of her, how perfect! She’s found the one part
that will let her blend in seamlessly at rehearsals. Only he
will be able to see her, from time to time. Only he will hear
her. She’ll be invisible to every eyeball else.

(Felix hearing Miranda's voice playing Ariel after practising in the mirror) uhm what???

But real life is brilliantly colored, says another part of his
brain. It’s made up of every possible hue, including those we
can't see. All nature is a fire: everything forms, everything
blossoms, everything fades. We are slow clouds. . .

(Felix)

Idiot, he tells himself. How long will you keep yourself
on this intravenous drip? Just enough illusion to keep you
alive. Pull the plug, why don’t you? Give up your tinsel
stickers, your paper cutouts, your colored crayons. Face the
plain, unvarnished grime of real life.

oh??? what's happening

The poor girl is trapped in the middle of the ocean with a testosterone-sodden thug who wants to rape her and an ancient dad who’s totally off
his gourd. No wonder she throws herself into the arms of the first sane-looking youth who bumbles her way. Get me out of here! is what she’s really saying to Ferdinand. Isn’t it?

(Felix's inner monologue about Miranda in the play)

ok so NOW it's getting really interesting!!!!

ok i'm SO glad he's finally got his job (chapter 8)

to be honest... not that interesting so far. a lot of "he [verb] like thought/did this/realised etc" and rhetorical questions. lots of third person, not that much progression of the plot. or comedy. or character development or anything.
there are references to the tempest, like okay, but it's not doing too much at this point in the book.

Now my charms are all o’erthrown,
And what strength I have ’s mine own,
Which is most faint. Now ’tis true
I must be here confined by you,
Or sent to Naples. Let me not,
Since I have my dukedom got
And pardoned the deceiver, dwell
In this bare island by your spell,
But release me from my bands
With the help of your good hands.

(Prospero talks to audience; he reveals he has given up magic + applause. Epilogue)

O wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O, brave new world
That has such people in ’t!

(Miranda; at sight of seeing so many new men Act 5 Sc. 1)

omg!!!!! the origins of the title 'brave new world'...!!

TRINCOLO: Ay, but to lose our bottles in the pool!
STEPHANO: There is not only disgrace and dishonor in
that, monster, but an infinite loss.
TRINCOLO: That’s more to me than my wetting. Yet this
is your harmless fairy, monster!
STEPHANO: I will fetch off my bottle, though I be o’er
ears for my labor.

(Trincolo and Stephano so sad that they lost their wine in the pool that Ariel sent them in Act 4 Sc 1)

A devil, a born devil, on whose nature
Nurture can never stick; on whom my pains,
Humanely taken, all, all lost, quite lost;
And as with age his body uglier grows,
So his mind cankers. I will plague them all
Even to roaring.

(Prospero to Ariel about Caliban; cursing him for being a devil!! Act 4 Sc. 1)

We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.

(Prospero to Ferdinand, Act 4 Sc. 1)

and now Prospero realises that Caliban and the other spirits are trying to kill him...

"I had forgot that foul conspiracy
Of the beast Caliban and his confederates
Against my life. The minute of their plot
Is almost come.—Well done. Avoid. No more.

To a strange, hollow, and confused noise,
the spirits heavily vanish. "

(Prospero outloud, Act 4 Sn. 1)

LOL????????!!!! help haha...

random masque with gods (entertainment) play within a play

"Some wanton charm upon this man and maid,
Whose vows are that no bed-right shall be paid
Till Hymen’s torch be lighted—but in vain.
Mars’s hot minion is returned again;
Her waspish-headed son has broke his arrows,
Swears he will shoot no more, but play with
sparrows,
And be a boy right out." lol????

(Iris to Ceres, about Cupid. Act 4 Sc.1)

I warrant you, sir,
The white cold virgin snow upon my heart
Abates the ardor of my liver.

(Ferdinand to Prospero Act 4 Sc. 1)

saying that his love for miranda outweighs his lust?? - at least until their wedding day, in accordance to prospero's wishes

Full many a lady
I have eyed with best regard and many a time
The harmony of their tongues hath into bondage
Brought my too diligent ear: for several virtues
Have I liked several women; never any
With so full soul, but some defect in her
Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed
And put it to the foil: but you, O you,
So perfect and so peerless, are created
Of every creature's best!

(Ferdinand to Miranda Act3Sc.1)

No, precious creature,
I had rather crack my sinews, break my back,
Than you should such dishonor undergo
While I sit lazy by.
(Ferdinand to Miranda Act 3 Scene 1)

omg the start is SO GOOD
i need to read if you could see the sun next!!!