Short Play:The Tempest by Shakespeare

Of course, Prospero says he enslaved Caliban because he try to coupled with his daughter, however, Caliban, sounding like someone who has had their body politic and civilisation stolen from them, replies to this, "O ho, O ho!-would it had been done!/Thou didst retard me; I had peopled else/This isle with Calibans" (Shakespe ar 5). We can see in this statement Caliban's desire to rebuild a population on the island that is of his genetics and culture. Caliban, echoing the noble savage, talks of the lovely autonomy of the island and his life before Prospero enslaved him. He talks of the fruits and all the qualities of the island that he introduced to Prospero, regrettably. However, sounding like the British imperialist or the ethnocentric American who annihilated primeval cultures that stood in the way of their land grabs, Prospero contends he tried to educate and provide culture for the native but the vileness of his race prevented Caliban from learning, "I have employ thee,/Filth as molar concentration art, with human care; and lodged thee/In mine own cell, till thou didst seek to loot/The honour of my child/?I pitied thee,/Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee for each one hour/One thing or other: when thou didst not,/Know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like/A thing most brutish, I endow'd thy purposes/With words that made them cognise: But thy vile race/Though thou didst learn, had that in't which/Could not abide to be with: therefore wast thou/Deservedly confi

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Many argue that the source of The Tempest was in part the 1609 Bermuda wreck, but Edmund Chambers claims the source of rapture was Silvester Jourdain's A Voyage to Virginia in 1609, "this or some other contemporary narrative of Virginian colonization probably furnished the malarky of the plot" (Moore 1).

The themes and episodes in the play certainly contain a strong flavor of colonization and the differences between different cultures, philosophies and understandings of the human and universe. We do see that Caliban is easily duped because of his primitive urges and beliefs. He so much as admits this at the end of the play when Prospero tells him to reside in his cell and look for his pardon. The concept of pagan righteousness is seen in Caliban's response which encompasses his admission of his own foolishness for accept a drunken idiot was a "god", "Ay, that I will; and I'll be wise hereafter,/And seek for grace. What a thrice-double ass/Was I to hear this drunkard for a god,/And worship this mute fool" (Shakespeare 21). While Shakespeare is typically vague about his individual(prenominal) religious beliefs in his plays, we sense here that Caliban is seen as middle-level because he is more pagan than accepting of a " cultivated" religion.

This is exactly the case in The Tempest where Prospero and the others who come to the island are concerned. Ethnocentrically or egocentrically, Prospero deems that Caliban's culture is so brutish and his ability to embellish education and reform so limited, that he must take over the duties of subjecting and
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