 | Kingsley Bolton, Braj B. Kachru - English language - 2006 - 360 pages
...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... | |
 | John Ralston Saul - Philosophy - 2006 - 513 pages
...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... | |
 | Martina Ghosh-Schellhorn, Vera Alexander - East Indian diaspora - 2006 - 308 pages
...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 know 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,... | |
 | Laura Di Michele - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 380 pages
...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... | |
 | Sukanta Chaudhuri - Didactic drama, English - 1981 - 284 pages
...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... | |
 | Margaret A. Majumdar - History - 2007 - 344 pages
...not that intended by them. As he says, if he has become fluent, it is all the better to curse them. 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 I, Scene ii) Learning the language has allowed... | |
 | Jessica Adams - Social Science - 2007 - 242 pages
...conditions that render their entire play a tripling. Caliban speaks his possession as a metacurse: 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. (53) For Baker, the ownership of black bodies that is at the core... | |
 | Paul Christopher Johnson - Religion - 2007 - 343 pages
...and with the correct tools, especially the correct words. Caliban upbraids Prospero in The Tempest: 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! And yet, Caliban proceeds: I must obey. His art is of such pow'r,... | |
 | Jerome Neu - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2007 - 304 pages
...effeminate And in my temper soft'ned valor's steel! (III. 1.107—1 13) SHAKESPEARE'S INSULT LANGUAGE 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 reply to Miranda, Tempest I. ii. 363-67) There is... | |
 | Robert Fisk - Social Science - 2008 - 544 pages
...Prospero's daughter, the colonial slave who turns against the fruits of civilisation that were offered him. 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! Yet Caliban must 'obey' Prospero because 'his art is of such power'.... | |
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I pitied thee, Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour One thing or other : when thou didst not, savage, Know thine own meaning, but would'st gabble like A thing most brutish, I endow'd thy purposes With words that made them known : But thy... 
