English 02
27 January 2009
Captivity and Confinement;
An Essay on Ariel and Caliban’s Imprisonment.
TS: Someone who has never given Prospero a reason to dislike her, Ariel has certain privileges that Caliban does not possess. SD: She is treated with more civility than Caliban is shown from Prospero. CM: Prospero does not insult her or curse her for no reason like he does to Caliban. CM: She is also not given such arduous orders as Caliban is given either. CM: Prospero refers to her as “a spirit too delicate” to perform such tasks. SD: Ariel is also a slave like Caliban, but with one exception. CM: Prospero had told Ariel that he will “discharge” Ariel from his services if she does one more task for him. CM: She will break free from her confinement as a slave and Caliban will still be imprisoned. CS: All in all Ariel has a much more enjoyable “confinement” then Caliban has and soon she will not have one at all.
TS: Caliban too is a slave like Ariel, but he is treated more like a seed of Satan than an actual living, breathing, feeling being. SD: His service to Prospero is a much less enjoyable one than Ariel’s, his life is constantly made miserable by Prospero. CM: He is made to do much more onerous work than Ariel is told to do and is whipped when showing desrespect. CM: He is also verbally abused by Prospero who refers to him as “poisonous slave” and tells him he was “got by the devil himself.” SD: Caliban will never have what Ariel is about to achieve as long as Prospero is alive, his freedom. CM: Ariel will soon be free of slavery, free to do what she pleases, free to say that no one owns her while Caliban will be stuck slaving for Prospero and his daughter. CM: Caliban will work for Prospero until he dies if Prospero sees fit and he won’t be able to do anything about it. CM: He will live in misery for the duration of his confinement for the sin tried to commit, raping Prospero’s daughter. CS: He also used the knowledge of language to curse those who gave it to him, but “the corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language” (Ralph Waldo Emerson) and Caliban has corrupted himself by doing just that.
TS: Ariel and Caliban are two very different beings in two very different situations. SD: Ariel is a beautiful, delicate spirit with magical powers whereas Caliban is a hideous, mutilated hell spawn that knows nothing but sin. CM: Caliban is doomed to live a life as horrible as the curses he spits from his horrid mouth. CM: Ariel will live a life as wonderful and unique as she herself is. CS: In the end evil will, once again, get the short end of the stick while good will prevail.
Key
Bold-Fast Words
Red-Parallelism
Blue-Participle Phrases
2 comments:
Kyle,
Bravo! Magnificent writing! Your points were very clear, and did not confuse me in any way. The only major issue I had was your introduction, I felt like there wasn't too much of an introduction, as just jumping into the writing, which is great, but also can be hard for some. Also, I found the first clause of the second paragraph, "Not being a horrible disfigured sinner" be a little awkwardly phrased. I understood what you were saying, but I think it would be to your advantage to rephrase it. Otherwise, great job!
Kyle,
Your essay was great and I liked the way you were able to jump into your essay with your intro. "There are many things that are alike and completely different at the same time, like the yin and yang" sounds a bit well strange/awekward maybe if you replaced "Like" with "similar" or something similar it would flow a bit more smoothly. Secondly, "they share the title slave" maybe a colon or comma after title would do.
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