ENGL339 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Clairvoyance
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The tempest: themes - caliban and colonialism; prospero and surveillance; freedom. When stephano sees t and c under the blanket: this must be some new monster. Drinking onstage communicates irrationalism kind of is clairvoyant about native peoples and alcohol. > when he gives booze to c. (2. 2. 155) c says be my god . This is about the politic for tasting alcohol. It offers him a kind of freedom so he offers his servitude. 2. 2. 100: caliban: go after him while he sleeps. We must be free to express our thoughts. Caliban has a childlike wonder and danger about him. Caliban: 2. 2. 147: touching lovely passage about how magical the place is. Sounds and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not. Will hum about mine ears, and sometimes voices. That, if i then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again; and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open, and show riches.
