HUMAN 1B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Great Chain Of Being, Vitruvian Man, Thrice

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Prospero drowns his book, gives up his power (p 75-6: cruel, inhumane, how does he end up seeming deeply human, caliban seek[s] for grace (p 86, only one in act i to resist prospero. Language is the partner to [human] empire: conflict (within and between languages): prospero vs. caliban, world: whose island is it? (language decides, characters/people: how does language define humanity. Characters + conflict + world = a play. This island"s mine by sycorax my mother (p 20) 3. language allows challenge, poetry, self-understanding, play and creativity: This island"s mine / the isle is full of voices (p 56-7) Ban-ca-caliban freedom high day! (p 47: caliban plays with language in this way. 4. language disempowers / confines him both from without and from within: You taught me language, and my profit on"t / is, i know how to curse (p 21) What a thrice double ass was i (p 86) Why don"t we know: caliban sees life, disgusts outsiders.

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