During the Elizabethan England, the country was seeking to establish colonization in the New World (North and South America). Throughout Shakespeare’s play “The Tempest”, certain scenes suggest Caliban doesn’t seems to support colonialism through the implications of economic exploitation, slavery, and language in particular. In Act II, Scene II, Stephano explains, “If I can recover him and keep him tame and get to Naples with him, he’s a present for any emperor that ever trod on neat’s leather.” This line suggests that Stephano is looking to find profit through selling Caliban to the king. Likewise, as the main purpose of settlement in the Southern region of the New World during the 17th century was to seek resources with monetary value, perhaps the
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Fetch us in fuel.” Shakespeare may have used imperative (verbs used to give orders, commands, warning or instructions, and to make a request) to portray Prospero’s oppressiveness toward Caliban. Through his use of imperative, he may have tried to make the audience feel pity towards Caliban as his freedom is being usurped by Prospero. Caliban immediately reacts to Prospero by expressing “I must obey. His art is of such power.” By Caliban calling Prospero’s magical powers as “art”, it may be implying that Caliban thinks of Prospero’s power as a form of something superior than what civilian can do. Evidently, the author’s main purpose of including this part may have been to show Caliban’s fear towards Prospero’s magical power as it seems superior than what he has. It is likely that the author has included this scene to mock the settlers in the New World as they not only sought the natives as their labor sources, but also the settlers had used machinery to overwhelm the natives.This would shock the modern audiences as slavery is prohibited in most land and the way Prospero treats Caliban seems unacceptable to most modern
Fetch us in fuel.” Shakespeare may have used imperative (verbs used to give orders, commands, warning or instructions, and to make a request) to portray Prospero’s oppressiveness toward Caliban. Through his use of imperative, he may have tried to make the audience feel pity towards Caliban as his freedom is being usurped by Prospero. Caliban immediately reacts to Prospero by expressing “I must obey. His art is of such power.” By Caliban calling Prospero’s magical powers as “art”, it may be implying that Caliban thinks of Prospero’s power as a form of something superior than what civilian can do. Evidently, the author’s main purpose of including this part may have been to show Caliban’s fear towards Prospero’s magical power as it seems superior than what he has. It is likely that the author has included this scene to mock the settlers in the New World as they not only sought the natives as their labor sources, but also the settlers had used machinery to overwhelm the natives.This would shock the modern audiences as slavery is prohibited in most land and the way Prospero treats Caliban seems unacceptable to most modern