Logic of Imagination by Sallis John

Author:Sallis, John
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Indiana University Press

Not even the sight—or the smell—of Caliban distracts Trinculo from his preoccupation with the elements; and, as he exclaims

Alas, the storm is come again,

(II.ii.36)

he creeps under the gabardine with his monstrous bedfellow.

In facilitating the prospects envisaged by Prospero, Ariel has a unique relation to the elements. At the end of the play, when Prospero has given him his final charge, his erstwhile master adds:

Then to the elements

Be free, and fare thou well!

(V.i.317–18)

Yet already in serving for the realization of Prospero’s designs, Ariel traverses the various elements. Indeed when, summoned by Prospero, he appears for the first time in the play, he comes to speak precisely of traversing the regions of the various elements:

All hail, great master; grave sir, hail! I come

To answer thy best pleasure, be’t to fly,

To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride

On the curled clouds. To thy strong bidding, task

Ariel and all his quality.

(I.ii.189–93)

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