50 Important Quotes You Should Pay Attention to in Hag-Seed

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#11: “To the elements be free,” he says to her. And, finally, she is.”

• Character: Felix
• Techniques: Intertextuality
• Epilogue, page 283

Anne-Marie Quotes in Hag-Seed

#12: “Being a girl is the pits, trust me.”

• Themes: Modern-day commentary
• Techniques: Colloquialism, metaphor
• Chapter 15, page 96

#13: “Bunch of lily-white-no-touchy Ferdinands, are they?”

• Themes: Theatre, modern-day commentary
• Techniques: Irony, textual allusion
• Chapter 15, page 96

#14: “You’re in character already,” says Anne-Marie, grinning. “Playing my overprotective dad.”

• Themes: Theatre
• Techniques: Irony, textual reference, metatextuality 
• Chapter 23, page 141

#15: “You’re talking as if Miranda is just a rag doll. … draping herself over the furniture like wet spaghetti with a sign on her saying Rape Me.”

• Themes: Theatre, modern-day commentary
• Techniques: Metaphor, simile, dark humour
• Chapter 43, page 254

#16: “What do you think the girl was up to when Prospero was having his afternoon snoozes? She was hitting the books – Prospero’s books!”

• Themes: Theatre, modern-day commentary
• Techniques: Colloquialism, textual reference, exclamation,
• Chapter 43, page 255

#17: “He said it was love at first sight. I said it was only a play, it wasn’t real.”

• Themes: Theatre
• Techniques: Intertextuality, metatextuality
• Chapter 25, page 153

Power

#18: “What was Felix waiting for?… A pathway towards a moment of confrontation? A moment when the balance of power would lie with him.”

• Character: Felix
• Techniques: Anthypophora
• Chapter 7, page 45

#19: “They’d be right there in Fletcher! The one place in the world where, with judicious timing, he might be able to wield more power than they could.” 

• Character: Felix
• Techniques: Exclamation, hyperbole
• Chapter 10, page 70

#20: “It’’s theatre, Felix protests now, in his head. The art of true illusions! Of course, it deals in traumatic situations! It conjures up demons in order to exorcise them!”

• Character: Felix
• Techniques: Exclamation, hyperbole, imagery
• Chapter 12, page 79

#21: “Careful, he tells himself. Hold it together. Prospero’s always in control. More or less.”

• Character: Felix
• Techniques: Textual reference, metatextuality 
• Chapter 25 , page 160

#22: “This is the day. He stands on the cliff’s edge. Very soon it will be thunder time. But first, the pre-battle speech.”

• Character: Felix
• Techniques: Metaphor, imagery
• Chapter 32, page 198

#23: “They aren’t interested in the life of the imagination, and they have failed to grasp the redemptive power of art. Worst of all: they think Shakespeare is a waste of time.”

• Character: Felix
• Techniques: Repetition 
• Chapter 32, page 199

#24: “Supplanting Felix Phillips was just the first step: Tony’s risen like a gas balloon ever since.”

• Character: Sal
• Techniques: Simile
• Chapter 33, page 205

#25: “We could put them on show…Gibbering lunatics. Street people. Addicts. Dregs of society. Always good for a laugh.”

• Character: TimEEz
• Techniques: Irony, imagery, congery,
• Chapter 38, page 229

#26: “Sal, you’re the Justice Minister, so I want some justice.”

• Character: Felix
• Techniques: Irony
• Chapter 39, page 233

#27: “Is extreme goodness always weak? Can a person be good in the absence of power? The Tempest asks us these questions.”

• Character: Bent Pencil
• Techniques: Anthypophora, metatextuality
• Chapter 44, page 260

#28: “He has no leverage, no power platform; he’s no longer among those who matter.”

• Character: Felix
• Techniques: Anaphora
• Epilogue, page 280

Quotes about Forgiveness in Hag-Seed

#29: “Hast thou,” he says “which art but air, a touch, a feeling of their afflictions, and shall not myself be kindlier moved than thou art?”

• Character: Felix
• Techniques: Intertextuality, self-reflection
• Chapter 38, page 231

#30: “Am I supposed to say, ‘I would, sir, were I human’?”

• Character: 8handz
• Techniques: Intertextuality, metatextuality 
• Chapter 38, page 231

#31: “Under these condition I pardon all of you, and we’ll let bygones be bygones.”

• Character: Felix
• Techniques: Idiom
• Chapter 39, page 235

#32: “The rarer action is/In virtue than in vengeance, he hears inside his head”

• Character: Felix
• Techniques: Intertextuality
• Chapter 39, page 239.

#33: “…it’s Ariel who changes Prospero’s mind, from revenge to forgiveness, because despite the crap they did, he feels sorry for the bad guys and what they’re being put through…so we take it that’s okay—to change our own minds.”

• Character: 8handz
• Techniques: Intertextuality, colloquialism
• Chapter 41, page 247

#34: “Then Felix has strewn forgiveness around while listening to the clenching of Tony’s teeth, which has been a great pleasure.”

• Character: Felix
• Techniques: Humour, auditory imagery
• Epilogue, page 279

Estelle Quotes in Hag-Seed

#35: “The Literacy Through Literature program has been more or less… well, my special baby. I’ve lobbied quite hard for it!”

• Theme: Theatre
• Techniques: Metaphor, ellipsis, exclamation
• Chapter 8, page 49

#36: “She clearly had a vision of Felix lying on the floor with a homemade shiv sticking out of his neck and a puddle of blood spreading around him.”

• Theme: Imprisonment 
• Techniques: Visceral imagery
• Chapter 8, page 51

#37: “Shakespeare? But surely that’s far too… there are a lot of words… They’ll get discouraged.”

• Theme: Theatre
• Techniques: Metatextuality, ellipsis
• Chapter 8, page 52

#38: “She’s been keeping him posted. A true star, he tells her: his Lady Luck.”

• Theme: Theatre
• Techniques: Metaphor, personification
• Chapter 31, page 193

#39: “… because who but a broken-down old failure of a teacher would be doing theatre in a no-hope place like Fletcher?

• Themes: Theatre, imprisonment
• Techniques: Dark humour, irony
• Chapter 31, page 197

#40: “It sounded to her 8Handz deserved some good fortune, and the sea air would be so liberating for him.”

• Themes: Freedom, imprisonment 
• Techniques: Textual allusion
• Epilogue, page 283

Quotes about Revenge in Hag-Seed

#41: “Let’s shove it down the throat of that devious, twisted bastard, Tony.”

• Character: Felix
• Techniques: Anadiplosis
• Chapter 1, page 10

#42: “The secrecy, the sabotage, the snake-like subterfuge. The stupendous betrayal.”

• Character: Felix
• Techniques: Sibilance, congery 
• Chapter 3, page 23

#43: “Suddenly revenge is so close he can actually taste it. It tastes like steak, rare.”

• Character: Felix
• Techniques: Metaphor, simile
• Chapter 10, page 72

#44: “Oh, to watch their two faces! Oh, to twist the wire! He wants to see pain.”

• Character: Felix
• Techniques: Anaphora, exclamation
• Chapter 10, page 71

#45: “It’s taken a while, but revenge is a dish best eaten cold, he reminds himself.”

• Character: Felix
• Techniques: Adage
• Chapter 25, page 151

#46: “How will they react when they think their lives are dangling by a thread? Will there be anguish? Yes, there will be anguish.”

• Character: Felix
• Techniques: Anthypophora, repetition
• Chapter 29, page 178

#47: “It pleases him to see his enemies drawing ever nearer, as if they’re being sucked into a vortex of his own creation.”

• Character: Felix
• Techniques: Simile
• Chapter 31, page 192

#48: “I feel guilty about putting Lonnie through all this… but there’s nothing to be done. Anyway, he’s been keeping bad company.”

• Character: Felix
• Techniques: Self-reflection, textual reference
• Chapter 37, page 224

#49: “I know they’re assholes and they’re trying to snuff our Players, but this is too sick even for me.”

• Character: 8handz
• Techniques: Simile
• Chapter 38, page 230

#50: “But you’re right, that’s enough vengeance. Not a frown further. Time to reel them in.”

• Character: Felix
• Techniques: Self-reflection
• Chapter 38, page 231