...enslaved. He yearns to hurl curses against Prospero for having him bound in this discursive prison-house: "You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse. The red-plague rid you / For learning me your language!" (I. ii. 362-65) In the tradition of every enslaved...

...Miranda, is to teach him how to speak. In Caliban's case, speech allows him to attack his benefactor: "You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is I know how to curse." Prospero represents the failure of his project as the impossibility of inculcating superior human values...

...discussed by both authors. She quoted Caliban, in Shakespeare's The Tempest, saying to his master Prospero, "You taught me language; and my profit on't is, I know how to curse." She drew an analogy between language in Shakespeare's quote and technology in today's global economy....

...learn the colonizer's language before he or she can even think of articulating his or her own speech: "You taught me language; and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse." Just as in Brazil the development of the parodic chanchada genre can be seen as a response to the impossibility...

...its lies, Oh damn those ugly heathens; Damn their beauty and their spies, And take me back to heaven. You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse. . . . Oh Mr. Motto Fu Manchu Kung Fu ninja chopping you Charlie Chan chink and jap man —The Tempest...

...'known'). Caliban's famous reply to Prospero's speech (does EG intend the reader to remember it?) is: 'You taught me language; and my profit on't | Is, I know how to curse' (l. ii. 365-6). The change of wording endows the adolescent Gösse's purposes with greater agency....

...Therefore wast thou Deservedly confined into this rock, who hadst Deserved more than a prison. Caliban: You taught me language, and my profit on't Is, I know...plague rid you For learning me your language! (The Tempest act 1, scene 2, lines 351-64) Like the audiences of the Indian tragedies, Miranda pities Caliban,...

...extraordinary power of language, Caliban can in turn express his contempt for this new skill, responding: You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know...red plague rid you, For learning me your language! Caliban's development of speech has turned him from brute into human being. He gives external expression...

...predicated on their actual marginality in Shakespeare's text where departures from the colonialist rule - "You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse" (I. ii. 365-6) - always lead back to the same colonialist destination: "I'll be wise hereafter." It...

...anagrammatic invention, Caliban. Her "curses" thus recall Caliban's lines in The Tempest, spoken to Prospero: "You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse." Brathwaite notes in X/Selfthat "Caliban has become an anti-colonial/ Third World symbol of cultural...