... was one of the main basis's on which America was founded on. Besides taking Africans from their native land, Europeans had a negative view on other nations in general. A play by William Shakespeare called The Tempest involved the crew of a ship being shipwrecked on an island. Caliban, the only native there was a hideous creature made to be inhuman. Both symbolically and metaphorically, Prospero the main character of the story was seen ... to be the civilized European, while Caliban was seen as an uncivilized animal. This is ... ...

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... poem by Anne Bradstreet. I will first oppose the two "worlds- and their representations, and then I will try to find why the writers represented the New World in the ways they described it and not another one. In The Tempest, the "Old World- is represented by Italy and the "New World- by a deserted Island. Italy is the cradle of the Renaissance but also as Dr. David Salter described ... it in his lecture as a country of "Machiavellian politics- which implied the ideas of "cunning, scheming, unscrupulous ... brother Prospero. In the other "World-, Trinculo and Stefano describe Caliban, t...

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