HUMAN 1B- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 36 pages long!)
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The play is about change and transformations- a father who is stuck in the past and trying to control the future. O"toole argued that there are changes that occur for both the colonizers and the colonized. There are physical aspects of change (uncus, the landscape) but change also happens inwardly, in the invisible world within. People change the way they think, and the way they think about themselves. When these changes occur within, they are occurring in the realm of language, especially linguistic change as a result of imperial interaction. Language is the partner to empire. -antonio de nebrija. You taught me language, and my profit on"t is, i know how to curse. The red plague rid you for learning me your language! -caliban to prospero 1. 2. 362-4. A hypothesis: language is a partner of empire, supporting its goals. No empire fails to leave its own language behind.
