See's the text as a product of the time in which it was written, the text gives the meaning
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The readers relationship with the text dictates the text's meaning
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Orientalism, who's theory is it?
Edward Said
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Who is the Occident in The Tempest, explain.
Prospero is the Occident, he has masculine power, western power and authority over the natives
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Who is the Orient, explain.
Caliban and Ariel are both the Orient in The Tempest. Ariel is more typically the Orient due to his magical and subservient nature
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Caliban tries to "populate the whole isle" what does this show?
That Caliban was aware that the native power could overthrow the western power through mass of number
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Caliban is sometimes described as a "hybrid" why?
Because of the contradictory nature of his "mishappen" appearance and his poetic use of language
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Feminism (Anglo American) is based on the...
power, position, authority, appearance, role and status of of women
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Explain the domestic goddess/whore part of Anglo American feminism
Female characters are either domestic goddesses or whores, Miranda and Claribel = Goddess, Sycorax= whore
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Shakespeares women... Helen Zimmerman
"his women are perhaps the most attractive and , in a sense, original creations, so different are they from the ideal feminine type of the literature of his day"
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