1. From the Monster to the Oppres
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. ... From the late eighteenth century commentators began to associate The Tempest's plot, language and characters with Europe's exploration and colonization of America. ... He was not evil by nature, they argued, but he acquired the European's vices rather than virtues. ... Interpreting Prospero's book as the symbols of a literate technology with which the ruling classes of Euro...
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