...peoples throughout the world, and Shakespeare dramatizes the encounter with wit and a frisson of horror. 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! Later, Caliban quotes Pigafetta's account...

...Miranda, is to teach him how to speak. In Caliban's case, speech allows him to attack his benefactor: "You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is I know how to curse." Prospero represents the failure of his project as the impossibility of inculcating superior...

...revolts, for they are the people most likely to develop a real hatred of Europeans. Caliban's dictum: You taught me language; and my profit on't Is. I know how to curse. . . , though it over-simplifies the situation, is true in essence. It is not that Caliban has...

...Caliban, born of the recognition of herself as the creation of the man's violent, sadistic desires. 'You taught me language; and my profit on't is, I know how to curse', speaks Caliban in The Tempest (1.11.363-4). It is a lesson 22 Pat Barker exemplified in Kelly's...

...Caliban, born of the recognition of herself as the creation of the man's violent, sadistic desires. "You taught me language; and my profit on't is, I know how to curse," speaks Caliban in The Tempest (1.2.353— 67). This lesson is exemplified in Kelly's enraged...

...predicated on their actual marginality in Shakespeare's text where departures from the colonialist rule - "You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse" (I. ii. 365-6) - always lead back to the same colonialist destination: "I'll be wise hereafter."...

...Therefore wast thou Deservedly confined into this rock, who hadst Deserved more than a prison. 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! (The Tempest act 1, scene 2, lines 351-64)...

...anagrammatic invention, Caliban. Her "curses" thus recall Caliban's lines in The Tempest, spoken to Prospero: "You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse." Brathwaite notes in X/Selfthat "Caliban has become an anti-colonial/ Third World symbol of...

...emergence of new identities among colonized peoples. Shakespeare's Caliban complained to Prospero that 'You taught me language; and my profit on't is, I know how to curse'. Missionaries could hardly have anticipated all the ways that their translations would be employed,...

...extraordinary power of language, Caliban can in turn express his contempt for this new skill, responding: 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 development of speech has turned...