Colinization and Temptest Act II & III

    I believe that Shakespeare is definitley attempting to have his readers portray Caliban as an "other" or as a representation of native peoples. He is described as a "savage" and looked down on throughout Act II and Act III of the Temptest. I believe that Shakespeare is trying to shed light onto colinization for Europeans. I see the character, Caliban, as a representative to show the unfair hatred of colonization.
  I am not exactly sure why, but I believe (from what I've read so far...) that Shakespeare is sympathetic toward Caliban. I think that he is showing this horrible side of colonization as an example of what tends to happen to the world and its "foriegners". I believe that Shakespeare is trying to show the world the use of "hegemony- that is, its dominant values, sense of right and wrong, and sense of personal wealth." (Cultural Studies 2). When I read the Temptest I get the strong idea that Shakespeare was portraying the concept of hegemony. Caliban is a man of no personal wealth whatsoever, but has extreme dominant values. But this is overlooked because of the wrong doings of colonizaion and streotyopes.
   This video on Native Americans was pretty sad, and dissapointing to watch because it could have been prevented. Why did we have to represent the native Americans as monsters and murderers? While watching this video I was continuously reminded of the "Danger of a Single Story" video. It just showed that yet another "single story" influenced people's perception on certain things, in this case Native Americans. Even though this was in the 50s and 60s I believe that Shakepeare was trying to show that exact same concept of how colinization, but only in his narrative it is about Prospero taking the land from Caliban and giving him the short end of the straw (unfair...).

I know this wasn't all that great so im sorry...but I tried ;)