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A review by lilith89ibz
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
4.0
This one is not my favourite play, even though it is, of course, supremely quotable.
Above all, I take issue with Caliban as a character. I don't know what Shakespeare was going for, but what I get from it is that there are people who are inclined to serve whichever master comes along because even though they want to hold power they don't have the wherewithal to do it, and I find his physical description in combination with the description of his character as a "savage" and an attempted rapist to be indicative of some ugly colonialist beliefs. This is one of those times in which I honestly can't tell if he meant it that way, if it was a criticism of the ways holding power works in general or of something else entirely. I'll leave it to the scholars.
Above all, I take issue with Caliban as a character. I don't know what Shakespeare was going for, but what I get from it is that there are people who are inclined to serve whichever master comes along because even though they want to hold power they don't have the wherewithal to do it, and I find his physical description in combination with the description of his character as a "savage" and an attempted rapist to be indicative of some ugly colonialist beliefs. This is one of those times in which I honestly can't tell if he meant it that way, if it was a criticism of the ways holding power works in general or of something else entirely. I'll leave it to the scholars.