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Alonso : Now all the blessings Of a glad father compass thee about! Arise, and say how thou cam’st here. ‘Miranda : O, Wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here ! How beauteous mankind is! 0 brave new world. That has such people in’t!Prospero : This new to theeAlonso : What is this maid with whom thou wast at play? Your eld’st acquaintance cannot be three hours. Is she the goddess that hath sever’d us, And brought us thus together?(i) Whom does Alonso ask to “arise ”? What is he glad “about”? (ii) What is Miranda wonderstruck about? (iii) Explain the terms, “eldest acquaintance” and “sever’d us”. (iv) What information does Alonso receive in response to his question, “Is she the goddess that hath sever’d us. And brought us together”? (v) Why is the world ‘new ’ to Miranda? |
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Answer» (i) Alonso asks his son Ferdinand to arise. Finding his son alive he is very glad. (ii) So many “goodly creatures” are the cause of wonder for innocent Miranda. (iii) Finding Ferdinand and Miranda close to each other, Alonso expresses his feeling that their acquaintance should be an old one and he thus calls it ‘eld’st’. Alonso takes Miranda as the goddess of the island who has ‘sever’d or separated them. (iv) In response to his question Alonso comes to know from Ferdinand that Miranda is not a goddess but a mortal human being. (v) Miranda had only seen two men in her life, who were Caliban and her father Prospero. So, the appearance of many human beings suddenly is a ‘new’ world to her. |
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