In Ronald Takaki’s The Tempest in the Wilderness, Takaki makes detailed relations to the early colonization of the New World to The Tempest. In Shakespeare’s play, there are clear class structures. Takaki relates those unyielding structures to ones used in the colonization of America. His essay is based on first-hand accounts of both the viewpoints of the creation of the New World, and the meaning of “savagery” in Ireland, Virginia, and New England. This theme of invasion and oppression will lead to the eventual elimination of the Native American civilization. In his thesis, Takaki claims that not only was The Tempest shaped by the history of English colonization New World but is interconnected by events that happened in the past and will
