European Imperialism In The Tempest

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During the discovery of the New World, Europeans explorers determined to construct institutional structure onto Native inhabitants of the New World. Moreover, English settlers desired to bring about colonization and establish their world view ideologies. In William Shakespeare's play the Tempest, Richard Hakluyt, Reasons for Colonization, and Sylester Jourdain, From a Discovery of the Barmudas, similarly intend to explain European settlement about the New World in their works. In that case we may ask, how does Hakluyt, Jourdain, and Shakespeare, when apposed, reveal about the politics of European ideas that were brought about into the New World. Particularly, Europeans sought to contribute to a capitalist discourse in order to extend their

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