We all know the story of how America came to be, but what people do not know about, is the man who was able to foresee the evolution of this continent. William Shakespeare, one of the greatest english writers in history, brilliantly expresses what was going in the Americas at the time through his last masterpiece, The Tempest, also thought to be an allegory of the colonial period and to the end of Shakespeare 's career. In a Story about politics,comedy, and and love, this ingenious author sended out three main allegories that stuck out to me. The first one is the arrival of Prospero and Miranda to the island itself, the second and third are two specific characters, Caliban, the savage islander, and last but not least, Miranda, the innocent
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“Dull thing, I say so. He, that Caliban/Whom now I keep in service. Thou best know’st/What torment I did find thee in. Thy groans/Of ever angry bears. It was a torment/Did make wolves howl and penetrate the breasts/To lay upon the damned, which Sycorax/Could not again undo. It was mine art,/When I arrived and heard thee, that made gape/The pine and let thee out./”. After Prospero’s brother took the dukedom from his inadvertent hands, in an attempt to get rid of him, he was shipped out to see with his daughter and arrives at an island which is already inhabited. Why is this an allegory of the colonial period?.Sounds familiar, at sea for days and nights, in an indigent situation, near starvation, a group of people arrive at land, in this particular story, a man and his daughter; A land that they immediately proclaim his. This is an allegory of the colonial period because it portrays what countries were doing to the new world, and on a deeper level it portrayed who was arriving to the new world, people who were prosecuted, just like prospero and …show more content…
“Oh, wonder!/How many goodly creatures are there here!/How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,/That has such people in ’t!” Miranda is well aware that this are the people who betrayed her father, yet she receives them with the which such wonder and curiosity, same wonder and curiosity that drove Cristobal Colon to explore the world and with the same innocuous welcome was Christobal Colon received in the native. Sadly we don 't get to see what happens to Miranda, if her love for Ferdinand its corrupted, Shakespeare implies that it is alway a possibility.
Finally just like Shakespeare I get to throw my staff and sink my books, but not without one final remark. You have just witnessed a few of some the hidden meanings behind this illusive play, and all this is clear evidence that The Tempest is an allegory the colonial period. Now dear reader its up to you to set me free or confine me to two weeks of chores (not
“Dull thing, I say so. He, that Caliban/Whom now I keep in service. Thou best know’st/What torment I did find thee in. Thy groans/Of ever angry bears. It was a torment/Did make wolves howl and penetrate the breasts/To lay upon the damned, which Sycorax/Could not again undo. It was mine art,/When I arrived and heard thee, that made gape/The pine and let thee out./”. After Prospero’s brother took the dukedom from his inadvertent hands, in an attempt to get rid of him, he was shipped out to see with his daughter and arrives at an island which is already inhabited. Why is this an allegory of the colonial period?.Sounds familiar, at sea for days and nights, in an indigent situation, near starvation, a group of people arrive at land, in this particular story, a man and his daughter; A land that they immediately proclaim his. This is an allegory of the colonial period because it portrays what countries were doing to the new world, and on a deeper level it portrayed who was arriving to the new world, people who were prosecuted, just like prospero and …show more content…
“Oh, wonder!/How many goodly creatures are there here!/How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,/That has such people in ’t!” Miranda is well aware that this are the people who betrayed her father, yet she receives them with the which such wonder and curiosity, same wonder and curiosity that drove Cristobal Colon to explore the world and with the same innocuous welcome was Christobal Colon received in the native. Sadly we don 't get to see what happens to Miranda, if her love for Ferdinand its corrupted, Shakespeare implies that it is alway a possibility.
Finally just like Shakespeare I get to throw my staff and sink my books, but not without one final remark. You have just witnessed a few of some the hidden meanings behind this illusive play, and all this is clear evidence that The Tempest is an allegory the colonial period. Now dear reader its up to you to set me free or confine me to two weeks of chores (not