...culture), with absence goes a corollary — namely, Miranda's and Prospero's civilizing contribution: When thou didst not, savage, Know thine own meaning,...endow'd thy purposes With words that made them known. (Shakespeare, The Tempest 1.2.357-60) Edward Long expressed similar sentiments but rooted them geographically...

...dismisses him as stupid. This is why her attacks upon Caliban focus upon his inability to speak: . . . when thou didst not, savage, Know thine own meaning,...endow'd thy purposes With words that made them known. If Miranda were not completely blinded by her obsession with the importance of language, she would...

...take, Being capable of all ill! I pitied thee, Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each 425 hour One thing or other. When thou didst not, savage,...meaning, but wouldst gabble like A thing most brutish, I endowed thy purposes With words that made them known. But thy vile 430 race, Though thou didst learn,...

...of the Europeans on his island. And yet, to Miranda, the noise that Caliban made was not language: I pitied thee, Took pains to make thee speak, taught...meaning, but wouldst gabble like A thing most brutish, I endowed thy purposes With words that made them known. (1, 2, 355-60) Any perception of the social arrogance...

...conquered and brutally exploited. The attitude of the colonizer is roundly represented in Prospero: I pitied thee, Took pains to make thee speak, taught...endow'd thy purposes With words that made them known. And the attitude of the rebellious slave in Caliban's reply: You taught me language; and my profit...

...with Calibans (1.2.348-50), prompts Miranda to speak: Abhorred slave, Which any print of goodness wilt not take, Being capable of all ill! I pitied thee,...meaning, but wouldst gabble like A thing most brutish, I endowed thy purposes With words that made them known. But thy vile race — Though thou didst learn...

...sowie das Kapitel zu The Collector in Salami, John Fowles' s Fiction and the Poetics of Postmodernism. I pitied thee, Took pains to make thee speak, taught...meaning, but wouldst gabble like A thing most brutish, I endowed thy purposes With words that made them known. Hier deutet sich schon ein zentraler Unterschied...

...colonizer and feels that she has enough authority to reproach her slave Caliban for his ingratitude: "... I pitied thee, / Took pains to make thee speak, taught...when thou didst not, savage, / Know thine own meaning ... I endow'd thy purposes / With words that made them known."4 Moreover, by accusing Caliban of being...

...apostrophe to Caliban, which, as Orgel notes,23 was often reattributed to Prospero by editors of the play: Abhorred slave, Which any print of goodness will not...meaning, but wouldst gabble like A thing most brutish, I endowed thy purposes With words that made them known. But thy vile race Though thou didst learn - had...

...group membership. In Shakespeare's The Tempest, the magician Prospero tells his slave Caliban: [. . .] I pitied thee, Took pains to make thee speak, taught...endow'd thy purposes With words that made them known [. . .] Through the extraordinary power of language, Caliban can in turn express his contempt for this...