In this scene,Prospero conjures up a masque. I didn’t really know what this meant so I looked it up. It was something common in the 16th and 17th century. It was like a little play to celebrate someones impending marriage. In this masque, Prospero conjures up Ceres the goddess of agriculture, Juno the goddess of marriage and Iris goddess of the rainbow and messenger for the gods. These three go on to talk about how marriage is a right social order. They don’t really talk about love and lust, just the social aspects. Prospero remembers that it’s the time for Caliban’s attempt to murder him and he delivers his speech after ending the masque. My favorite line of the tempest is “we are such stuff as dreams are made on”. In this speech he is talking about so much. He talks about how he has conjured up beautiful things but they must end soon. He talks also about the Globe theater and how the play must end also and we must carry on with our lives. This is also talking about life in general.
Tempest Act IV
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