1. From the Monster to the Oppres
... than virtues. New editions of The Tempest created a different atmosphere for reading it as a paradigm of exploitation by taking Caliban as a more a less "noble" slave. Interpreting Prospero's book as the symbols of a literate technology with which the ruling classes of Europe controlled the subliterates of the Third World, critics regarded that Prospero's suppression of the Caliban-Stephano-Trincilo plot emblemized the ... earth, he is the symbol of humanity, not simply bestiality. He has become a readily recognizable symbol in modern culture, a more important symbol than Prospero. As h...
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