3 Oct. Visualizing Your Future & Tempest, Act I

Visualizing Your Future

Take a 10-15 minutes and respond to the following:

1. Draft a name for your future world.
2. Sketch or briefly describe what your world looks like: what are its main geological features, what are some of its aesthetic traits, what do the people look like, what sorts of infrastructural or architectural features would standout to a visitor?
3. Get into small groups and describe your world. Try to explain it like you would explain a place to someone who hasn’t been there before; try to persuade them to go/warn them about it.

Let’s spend the remainder of our time discussing the following:

1. First, let’s do a table read of 1.1. I’m going to assign roles, remember the role you are assigned.
2. Does Prospero cause the storm?
3. What sorts of criticisms does Prospero level at Milan? How has he attempted to redress the problems he outlines? Have his attempts been successful?
4. How does the past interrupt the present in the play? OR, does the future ever start from scratch like More’s Utopia seems to suggest?