 You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse : The red plague rid you, For learning me your language ! Pro.  Works - Page 225edited by - 1847Full view - About this book
 | Laura Di Michele - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 380 pages
...valori morali e culturali. La questione della lingua appare determinante anche in questo caso: Cai You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse. The red plague rid you For learning me your language! (I, ii, 365-367) II linguaggio, che distingue... | |
 | Stephanie Newell - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 287 pages
...cosmopolitan young writers demonstrated the powerful truth of Caliban's words in Shakespeare's The Tempest: 'You taught me language, and my profit on't | Is, I know how to curse' (I. ii. 363-4). Unlike Caliban, however, the negritude poets did not proclaim in nostalgia and regret,... | |
 | N. Krishnaswamy, Lalitha Krishnaswamy - Art - 2006 - 240 pages
...European civilization that wants to enlighten the natives. Caliban's response is very significant: You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse: the red plague rid you, For learning me your language! (I. ii. 365-7) It has to be read in the context... | |
 | Graham Bradshaw, T. G. Bishop, Peter Holbrook - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 980 pages
...period.4 Together with his attempt to rape his language teacher, Miranda, Caliban's speech to Prospero, "You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is I know how to curse" ( 1 .2.364-5), reveals the vulnerability of literacy to abuse by those who acquire it as a result of... | |
 | Kingsley Bolton, Braj B. Kachru - English language - 2006 - 360 pages
...gabble, like A thing most brutish, I endow'd thy purposes With words that make them known. Caliban: You taught me language, and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse. The red plague rid you For learning me your language. It would appear that although Caliban may be... | |
 | John Ralston Saul - Philosophy - 2006 - 513 pages
...him to speak. 'I endowed thy purposes with words that made them known/ she says. But Caliban replies: You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse. The red plague rid you For learning me your language! One of the greatest ornaments of a good education... | |
 | David Cowart - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 266 pages
...the crime?"1 As Shakespeare's Caliban observes (the quotation is a favorite in postcolonial theory), "You taught me language; and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse"(77;e Tempest 1.2.365-66). But what pristine version of Antigua would the author embrace? That... | |
 | John Muthyala - America - 2006 - 232 pages
...wretched half human, half monster, is the central figure. Calibans famous declaration to Prospero — "You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse"34 — provides a model for contextualizing the history of colonialism and resistance in the... | |
 | Robert Viscusi - Social Science - 2012 - 296 pages
...dramatized his own distaste for authoritative discourse. He might have been speaking as Caliban: "You have taught me language; and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse" (I, ii, 365-66). That level of frustration grows out of his failure to complete the transvaluation.... | |
 | Margaret A. Majumdar - History - 2007 - 344 pages
...not that intended by them. As he says, if he has become fluent, it is all the better to curse them. You taught me language, and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse. The red plague rid you For learning me your language! (The Tempest, Act I, Scene ii) Learning the language... | |
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