Essay Assignment
Make sure to cite from the actual story, “The Tempest”, as well as the articles. Provide direct quotes from “The Tempest”: Act/scene and line numbers from the play.
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Assigned Readings: Primary Reading:
Shakespeare, William. “The Tempest.” The Norton Shakespeare: The Essential Plays/Sonnets, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, 3rd Edition, W.W. Norton and Co., 2015.
Secondary Reading: Note: Read only the page numbers indicated on the citation. You do not need to read the entire book. Lupton, Julia. “Creature Caliban.” Shakespeare Quarterly, vol. 51, no. 1, 2000, pp. 1-23. Deleuze, Gilles, Guattari, Felix, and Brinkley, Robert. “What Is a Minor Literature?” Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature. University of Minnesota Press, 1986, pp. 16-27.
Prompt
After completing Module 14, post your Sixth Miniature Synthesis Essa. In her article “Creature Caliban,” Julia Lupton states the following:
argue that it is a function of the biblical typing that silhouettes Caliban as creature, exiled to an island of Edenic nature (caught in the register of mere life, of purely animate being) and forever exiled from it, insofar as his melancholic capacity for both depressive pain and poetic speculation separates him from the natural world he emblematizes. (8)
With Lupton’s quote in mind, discuss how you believe Caliban occupies this liminal space of exclusion and exile in The Tempest.
