ENG150Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Indentured Servant, Genderqueer, Utopia
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Shakespeare"s the tempest probably set in bermuda a desert island, savage place. Mary nyqvist > idea that (classical europe) is was noble to enslave a person after war or if they were in history of people not knowing how to play ariel in the theatre distress (latin: slave/ save ambiguity) Okay to enslave if they were okay with being killed in war. Ariel a higher ranking slave, he owes prospero his life because sycarax stuck ariel in a tree and prospero saves him. Idea that if someone saves your life, you owe them servitude. Caliban is a proper lowly slave later caliban taken our because he"s seen as too lowly and negative and not wanted (depressing) contemplative > withdrawn from society. Management of the state seen as a god given duty not worldly ends" so he neglected his religious duty he educates himself for selfish purposes tone one of self pity, seen through diction.
