HUMAN 1B Lecture 6: Week 6, HUMAN 1B
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Even though he came off bad in the lectures, prospero is human! We are having more powerful women than ever before in history. But that same language can also be used to critique empire (ruin). Last time: the tempest"s language was used to recommend appropriation(kipling); also spurs postcolonial re-appropriation by male writers after decolonization. Hard lessons on both sides= male writers. Adaptation through reproduction , love in physical world. How committed these women are to the natural world. Namjoshi (snapshots): my sand castle. no, way! . Namjoshi (sycorax): i"m able to say clearly that when prospero said he took over an uninhabited island he lied. It was my property (at least as much as it was anybody else"s) . Taymor, draws our attention to the young woman, miranda with the sandcastle in the beginning. Instead of going straight to the shipwreck it shows us her.
