The Tempest Rhetorical Analysis

Through the analysis of aural elements involved in The Tempest, the author discovered “the value of textuality in a nontextual phase of criticism and that may contribute to the reconciliation of the text and context, the aesthetic and the political.” The author used stylistic criticism to deconstruct repetition of vowels and consonants, phonetic duplication, assonance and consonance, addressing how those elements compress and abbreviate the plots and blur the politic issues behind the text. By demonstrating how words repeat in the narration of Prospero of his former experience, the author reiterated the importance of contextual study and cast doubted the importance of politics in The Tempest. At the end of the article, the author highlighted the intentional ambiguity and irony placed in The Tempest and concluded The Tempest as an
He placed each point describing how text and context react each other in order to draw a lucid outline of the essay. The analysis of assonance, consonance and repetition is well developed in detail. With some supports from examples, the readers could easily understand the function of those words to create aural experience. However, for people who are not familiar with rhetorical devices might hard to build the connection between words Shakespeare used and the ambiguity the author wanted to convey. In addition, the political issue and colonization implied in The Tempest are hard to ignore. Although the essay contradicted priority of cultural context in The Tempest, the story itself reinforced themes of usurpation and regicide which frequently appear in the history. However, by referring some works which only focus on cultural context, the statement of anti-aesthetic feature of those recent discussions is convincing and this essay also emphasized the importance of aesthetic value of The