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Brittany Sanchez English 112 March 19. 2013

The Shackles of Revenge: An Analysis of being driven by Revenge in a System of Colonization in William Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Brittany Sanchez English 112 March 19. 2013. Character Analysis. Who is Caliban ? What are his motives? How has he changed throughout the book?. Thesis.

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Brittany Sanchez English 112 March 19. 2013

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  1. The Shackles of Revenge: An Analysis of being driven by Revenge in a System of Colonization in William Shakespeare’s The Tempest Brittany Sanchez English 112 March 19. 2013

  2. Character Analysis • Who is Caliban? • What are his motives? • How has he changed throughout the book?

  3. Thesis • Through the character Caliban Shakespeare portrays how when individuals are driven by revenge and try to rebel against a system of colonization then it will ultimately drive them deeper into colonization and negative consequences to arise.

  4. Themes • Colonization • Mercy & Revenge

  5. Revenge drives you away from what you want to obtain • “and then I loved thee and showed thee all the qualities o’th’ isle, the fresh springs, brine pits, barren place and fertile. Cursed be I that did so! For I am all the subjects that you have, which first was mine own king…” (I.ii.332-342). • “I’ll show thee every fertile inch o’th’ island; And I will kiss thy foot. I prithee be my god” (II.ii. 145-146) • Cycle and colonizer and colonized fault

  6. Going Against the Colonizer • Caliban-“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” (I.ii. 363-365) • Ariel-“Pardon, master. I will be correspondent to command and do my spiriting gently” (I.ii. 295-298) • “What Ho! Slave! Caliban” (I.ii. 313)

  7. Karma or Backlash of Revenge • “goblins grinding their joints with dry convulsions, shorten up their sinews with aged cramps, and more pinch-spotted make them” (V.i 258-261) • Long defeat of getting rid of colonizer

  8. Connection to the Real World • Christopher Columbus and colonization of Native Americans and taking away of their land

  9. Works Cited • Shakespeare, William, and Peter Holland. The Tempest. New York: Penguin, 1999. Print.

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