English 1022E Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Machiavellianism, Tabula Rasa, Noble Savage

• School: Western University
• Department: English
• Course: English 1022E
• Professor: Lorraine Dicicco

Document Summary

Reflects tension between politics and art/magic (right down to the setting of the play). Meta-theatre a play about the making of theatre (prospero is like the stage director). Caliban: one man alone on the island conquered by prospero, an ambiguous character. It is impossible to know someone unless one comes in from the outside. Thus the only way the reader sees caliban is through the eyes of the other the european. From this european view, caliban is looked at as a savage (358). He is also called (act ii scene ii line 138) a monster by trinculo and. In the great chain of being, caliban is the lowest a monster and savage being. Act iv scene i: prospero calls him a born devil. : caliban was originally a friend of prospero s when prospero came to the island. It begins as a loving relationship when caliban showed his now-master everything there was to know about the island.