Hello, everybody. I'm not sure if this is the type of thing that this blog is intended for; but now that we're in the second week of the course, it seemed like a good idea to me that we have a post put up on here anyhow.
During the class tonight, there was a comment made that it would be really nice to have a "New World" reading of The Tempest. Unfortunately, though, most of the conversation seemed to point the other way! I guess, if a person really wants a really loose parallel between the text and the new world, though, one hit me on the way home tonight.
When my first family members immigrated to Canada in the early 1600s, they wrote down a brief memoir--not their whole story, but just a quick recap of everything. And one of the things that they mentioned was that the Indians became friends with the French primarily as a way to get rid of the English. They chose a less demanding master, I guess, and promised to help kill the English settlers if the French would take over.
To me, it just sounded a lot like Caliban's situation, I guess. I don't know of anything similar to that happening in Europe, though it very well could've happened! If it's useful to that person who was looking for an excuse to make The Tempest about the New World, maybe you could use it!
Have a good tail-end of the week.
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