 | 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... | |
 | Dorothy J. Hale - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 841 pages
...Caliban - enslaved, robbed of his island, and taught the language by Prospero — rebukes him thus: "You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse." ["C," pp. 28, 11] As we attempt to unlearn our so-called privilege as Ariel and "seek from... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | James R. Simmons, Jr - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 500 pages
...part, been revealed to us. But let us not fly in the face of benignant nature, and say like Caliban, "You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse."1 "If used aright the recannot [sic] be a doubt that this magnificent power might, in all its... | |
 | Paul Christopher Johnson - Religion - 2007 - 343 pages
...and with the correct tools, especially the correct words. Caliban upbraids Prospero in The Tempest: 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! And yet, Caliban proceeds: I must obey.... | |
 | Jessica Adams - Social Science - 2007 - 242 pages
...conditions that render their entire play a tripling. Caliban speaks his possession as a metacurse: 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. (53) For Baker, the ownership of black... | |
 | Steven Pinker - Psychology - 2007 - 522 pages
...stranger to earthy imprecations himself, had Caliban speak for the entire human race when he said, "You taught me language, and my profit on't is, I know how to curse." GAMES PEOPLE PLAY Mistaken identity is a plot device so revealing of human foibles that Shakespeare... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Jerome Neu - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2007 - 304 pages
...effeminate And in my temper soft'ned valor's steel! (III. 1.107—1 13) SHAKESPEARE'S INSULT LANGUAGE 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! — (Caliban's reply to Miranda, Tempest... | |
 | Peter Holland - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 370 pages
...make him sweat for it. There's also a link here -with Caliban's learning of 'language' in The Tempest: 'You taught me language and my profit on't is / I know how to curse', and Katherine does exactly that. So these strands seem to emanate from a preoccupation -with... | |
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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. 
