Hilarious yet analytical character profiles for The Tempest in dating app style - perfect for revision, displays, starters or character comparison!
Bring Shakespeare’s magical island into the modern world with this creative and curriculum-rich character poster set for The Tempest. Each profile mimics a dating app format, with tongue-in-cheek humour, revealing insights and key quotations, perfect for helping students retain character traits, relationships, themes and key moments from the play.
From Prospero secretly controlling events across the island and Miranda’s very limited dating experience to Ariel’s desire for freedom, Caliban’s claim to the island and Antonio’s continued enthusiasm for political betrayal, each profile combines memorable humour with genuine knowledge of the text.
What’s Included:
8 full-colour A4 character profiles (PDF):
Prospero
Miranda
Ariel
Caliban
Ferdinand
Alonso
Antonio
Gonzalo
Each profile includes character information, a short biography, likes and dislikes, a biggest secret, red flag and memorable quotation.
Designed to combine humour with genuine textual knowledge, making key character information memorable without losing the analytical value needed for English Literature study.
Why It Works:
Supports character recall through humour and a consistent visual structure
Encourages understanding of character relationships, motivations and contrasts
Helps students explore Prospero’s relationships with Miranda, Ariel and Caliban, alongside Ferdinand and Miranda’s romance and the political betrayals behind Prospero’s exile
Provides memorable starting points for discussion of key ideas including power, control, freedom, revenge, forgiveness, betrayal, love, colonial interpretations, magic and illusion
Highlights important moments from the play including the tempest, Prospero’s plans, Ferdinand’s trials, Caliban’s plot and the eventual reconciliation
Key quotations provide opportunities for retrieval practice and deeper language analysis
Suitable for:
GCSE English Literature
KS3 and KS4 Shakespeare study
Revision and retrieval practice
Classroom displays or folder inserts
Starter activities
Character comparison
Group discussion and revision activities
Each profile combines character-specific humour with genuine knowledge of the play, helping students engage with Shakespeare’s characters while reinforcing important plot details, relationships, themes and quotations.
The profiles also provide opportunities to compare characters with very different experiences of power and freedom, from Prospero’s control of the island to Ariel and Caliban’s desire for liberty, as well as Alonso’s repentance and Antonio’s continued ambition.
The consistent dating-profile format makes the set ideal for classroom displays, while the individual profiles can also be used for character comparison, revision stations, discussion prompts or independent study.
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