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Thank you We sneak in Shakespeare's plays the tempest The

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supernatural lash shmoop which characters in the player supernatural entities

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So ariel and caliban are both slaves technically but there

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these two really different types of slaves ariel is much

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more willing slave and quite importantly he's just treated well

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Where's Caliban is treated with total contempt by prospero and

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miranda and this is because his mother is a demonic

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figure Which person right a witch who has actually also

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was responsible for imprisoning ariel at one point exactly so

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he's from the bad stock right whereas aerials from the

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nice flighty stock right Right exactly And i think it's

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important that contemporary scholars have really said caliban isn't treated

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fairly This isn't an endorsement for just enslaving people who

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aren't like you it's really a look at how when

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you enslave people because of different they become these like

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terrible twisted creatures this is all i mean this is

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all prospero's fault no question about that Which characters in 00:01:21.519 --> [endTime] the player Supernatural entities

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