...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 controlled by his master's voice, he...

...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 l'umana capacità di rappresentare...

...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 of India's struggle for freedom and...

...But the sound of Belawadi's Indian English also underlined and localised the politics of the play: "You taught me language, and my profit on't Is, I...how to curse. The red plague rid you For learning me your language!" It was Belawadi who took us deeper into the Indianness of Caliban, and so into the...

...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 is that one learns proper speech,...

...knowledge, but his faculty for knowledge is utterly corrupt. He is a counterweight to Prospero. . . . thy vile race, Though thou didst learn, had that in't which good natures Could not abide to be with; . . . (I. ii. 358-60) He represents the savage man or 'cannibal' that Sceptics like Montaigne had held...

...something new. Know thine own 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 that in't which Could not abide to be with', therefore wast thou Deservedly confined into this rock. When you couldn't...

...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...

...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 [a certain]...

...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,...