CALIBAN This island's mine, by Sxearex my mother,
Which thou takest from me. When thou samest first
Thou strakedst me and madest much of me, wouldst give me
Water with berries int, and teach me how
To name the bigger light, and how the less,
That burn by day and night and then I loved thee
And shevid thee all the qualities o' the isle,
The fresh springs, brine-pits, barren place and fertile:
Cursed be that did so! All the charms
Of Swertex, toads, beetles, bats, light on you!
For I am all the subjects that you have,
Which first was mine own king: and here you sty me
In this hard rock, whiles you do keep from me
The rest o' the island.
PROSPERO
Abhorred slave,
Which any print of goodness wilt not take,
Being capable of all ill! I pitied thee,
Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour
One thing or other: when thou didst not, savage,
Know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like
A thing most brutish, I endawid thy purposes
With words that made them known. But thy vile race,
Though thou didst learn, had that in't which
good natures
Could not abide to be with; therefore wast thou
Deservedly confined into this rock,
Who badst deserved more than a prison.
CALIBAN
You taught me language; and my profit ont
Is, I know how to curse. The red plague rid you
For learning me your language! Discuss The Tempest's themes of colonialism and the use of language to
dominate others. Then analyzw those themes are developed in the passage. Be sure to use specific
details from the passage in your response.