The Tempest Critical Approaches 4.0 / 5 based on 1 rating ? English LiteratureThe TempestA2/A-levelOCR Created by: Lily KerbeyCreated on: 04-06-13 09:26 Richard G Moulton (curse) "The gift of civilisation is turned into a curse" 1 of 11 Samuel Taylor Coledridge (noble) "Caliban is in some respects a noble being... the poet has raised him far above contempt" 2 of 11 Bernard Knox (utopia) "The Tempest [is] a utopia which Shakespeare created for himself..." 3 of 11 Northrop Frye (dream world) "We spend our lives partly in a waking world we call normal and partly in a dream world which we create out of our own desires" 4 of 11 James Russell Lovell (illusions) "The whole play, indeed, is a succession of illusions" 5 of 11 George Lamming (sadist) "[Prospero] an imperialist by circumstance, a sadist by disease and above all; an old man in whom envy and revenge are equally matched" 6 of 11 Jonathan Goldberg (consequences) "Prospero has given Caliban language, and with it an unstated history of consequences, an unknown history of future intentions" 7 of 11 Brian Vickers (allegory) "[The Tempest] is now unfortunately reduced to an allegory about colonialism" 8 of 11 George Lamming (convert) "Caliban is his [Prospero's] convert, colonised by language and excluded by language" 9 of 11 John Dryden (philosophy) "Whether or no his [Caliban's] generation can be defended, I leave to philosophy" 10 of 11 Nevill Coghill (adam and eve) "It resembles the story of Adam and Eve, type-story of our troubles" 11 of 11
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