¶ … literacy -- that which is mastered only by Prospero and Miranda, and sought after by Caliban who is considered illiterate in comparison to the pair. Caliban's antagonistic relationship with Prospero is one which the author believes is waged over this literacy and which is so crucial because it is both literal and figurative. Literally it represents the smoothness of language which the aforementioned pair possess; figuratively it involves the books that Prospero has which endow him with magical abilities to cast spells and actuate spirits such as Ariel. The author buttresses this opinion by ascribing significance to Caliban's attempts to counteract Prospero's powers by destroying his books, thereby making Prospero's literacy on par with his own illiteracy.
The most interesting aspect of this article is that its focus on literacy is one which is only shared between the previously denoted three characters (and perhaps Ariel) whose fate is linked to Prospero's. The focus of the play is on power and nobility in Italy; not on literacy on the desert island. Subsequently, it is somewhat surprising that the author has chosen to focus on this viewpoint in this article. However, the true value in this article is that it details Caliban's strengths which are merely alluded to in the play. He is not illiterate, only so when compared to Prospero's and Miranda's literacy. Similarly, he is not ignorant, just illiterate when compared to those two.
The crux of the Macbeth piece is its focus on the metaphors Shakespeare provides one's life and the individual days of one's life. It focuses on the passages in which life is likened to a day, and that each day a person awakens is akin to his or her birth. The author focuses on this fact because at one point Macbeth states he can no longer sleep, which the author construes as a harbinger of his fate. Thus, the aforementioned parallel inevitably likens the sleep that an individual receives at the end of the day to death. Shakespeare is able to imply such symbolism in the simple six-word quotation in which he references "the death of each day's life." "
The Macbeth article was an astute piece of criticism, for the simple fact that this paly largely revolves around the notion of life and its counterpart, death. The many murders which Macbeth actuates and which eventually claim him (in addition to the death of his wife) certainly mandate the focus on life and its entire cycle -- which ends with death -- that this author chose to focus upon. Furthermore, the rapidity of the events in the play, in which Macbeth goes from a general...
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