...Caliban's glee at the imagination of having raped 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 endow'd thy purposes With words that made them known. But thy vile race, Though thou didst learn, had...

...colonized Caribbean and the notions of linguistic superiority that underpinned that colonization: ... I pitied thee, Took pains to make thee speak, taught...meaning, but wouldst gabble like A thing most brutish, I endow'd thy purposes With words that made them known. (act i, scene 2, lines 353-58) Jean Baptiste...

...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,...purposes With words that made them known. But thy vile 430 race, Though thou didst learn, had that in 't which good natures Could not abide to be with. Therefore...

...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...endowed thy purposes With words that made them known. (1, 2, 355-60) Any perception of the social arrogance of the position from which the speech emanates...

...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...endowed thy purposes With words that made them known. Hier deutet sich schon ein zentraler Unterschied in den beiden Texten an: Während es bei Shakespeare...

..."Theoretical Babbling" and Caliban's "Incoherence" PROSPERO: 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 endow'd thy purposes With words that made them known. But thy vile race, Though thou didst learn, had...

...conquered and brutally exploited. The attitude of the colonizer is roundly represented in Prospero: I pitied thee, Took pains to make thee speak, taught...meaning, but wouldst gabble like A thing most brutish, I endow'd thy purposes With words that made them known. And the attitude of the rebellious slave in Caliban's...

...care; and lodged thee In mine own cell till thou didst seek to violate The honor of my child . . . I pitied thee, Took pains to make thee speak, taught...meaning, but wouldst gabble like A thing most brutish, I endow'd thy purposes With words that made them known: but thy vile race, Though thou didst learn, had...

...Abhorred slave, Which any print of goodness wilt not take, Being capable of all ill! I pitied thee, 355 Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour...meaning, but wouldst gabble like A thing most brutish, I endow'd thy purposes With words that made them known. But thy vile race, 360 Though thou didst learn,...

...group membership. In Shakespeare's The Tempest, the magician Prospero tells his slave Caliban: [. . .] I pitied thee, Took pains to make thee speak, taught...meaning, but wouldst gabble like A thing most brutish, I endow'd thy purposes With words that made them known [. . .] Through the extraordinary power of language,...