HUMAN 1B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Casa De Las Américas, Transpose, Middle Passage
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I am subject to a tyrant, / a sorcerer, that by his cunning hath / cheated me of the island (p. 53) Three islands (decolonizing), three answers as history changes the scene. Sense of unity and closure at the end of the play. Ay, that i will" and i"ll be wise hereafter, Was i to take this drunkard for a god. The language of shakespeare became a partner to empire. One of the majors tools was literature, along with education and language. People were taught to read and understand shakespeare when they were growing up. Partner of empire -- people of the empire taught to read his works, which fueled the. Words shared with shakespeare: burden, profit, devil, child, peoples. Verbal qualities in common with prospero: incantatory language through repetition to persuade, achieve power ( take ) White man = good and decent human being (whiteness=goodness)