For instance, " This island even exceeds the others in beauty and fertility. ... The men were even captivated by the sounds of the island. ... They then knew that this was going to be the island where they build their community. ... Viewing the Native America lifestyles you see people who are free spirited and free of and people who treasure the gift of life. ... Also they are great lovers of nature, which they treasure as much as the Europeans treasure power. ...

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Unlike Shakespeare's Caliban, Who appreciates the island's natural treasures and its wondrous music, Dryden and Davenant's Caliban is a completely a monster, insensitive to everything. ... His bestiality makes him an oppressor on the island until Prospero comes, who brings light, knowledge and virtue here and tries to educate this ungrateful monster to the civilized. ... In 1818, Hazlitt published The Yellow Dwarf, in which he firstly raised the view that it was Caliban, not Prospero, was the legitimate ruler of the island. ... Sidney Lee, the famous scholar knighted for hi...

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l. Definitions Transcendentalism- a system of philosophy, especially that associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson and other New England writers, that emphasizes intuition or the divine Romanticism- in the arts, the style and theories of the romantic movement, or the movement itself Aphorism- a ...

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