![]() ![]() Shakespeare introduced the character Caliban in “The Tempest” and depicted him as a barbarian and a savage incapable of nurture (37). They did have tools and means of hunting and gathering food but it was all quite unsophisticated compared to european advancements. ![]() It never occurred to them that the natives had never been exposed to their european “civilized” ways and did not have knowledge of sophisticated weaponry as their culture did not need such devices of destruction. According to Takaki, the early settlers judged native americans as lacking everything identifiable in a civilized society. Beginning with the early colonists and their treatment of the natives, there is a pattern of ruthless acquisition of land and goods. In the first chapter of “A Different Mirror” by Ronald Takaki, he explains stereotypes and biases of white, Eurocentric attitudes that have been with us since the earliest days of the colonies and settlements here. ![]() A Different Mirror: Takaki’s Use of the Tempest Short Summary ![]()
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