..."any print of goodness," Miranda charges, and instead is "capable ... I pitied thee, [she chides him], Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour...thou didst learn - had that in't which good natures Could not abide to be with. . . . (I.ii.352-59) For all Miranda's and Prospero's efforts, Caliban remains...

...Prospero) describes just how Caliban's nature was resistant to nurture: Abhorred slave, Which any point of goodness will not take, Being capable of all ill!...meaning, but wouldst gabble like A thing most brutish, I endow'd thy purposes With words that made them known. But thy vile race, Though thou didst learn, had...

...issue clear the first time she addresses Caliban. Abhorred slave, Which any print of goodness wilt not take, Being capable of all ill! I pitied thee,...thou didst learn — had that in't which good natures Cannot abide to be with; . . . (I.ii.350-59) Echoes here of the later image of the colonized male subject...

..."difference" that serves only to heighten her sense of racial difference and her estrangement from Caliban: I pitied thee, Took pains to make thee speak, taught...them known. But thy vile race — Though thou didst leam — had that in't which good natures Could not abide to be with . . . (1.2.352-59) Miranda's tirade...

...CHILDHOOD IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY PROSE AND VERSE TEXTS Abhorred slave, Which any print of goodness wilt not take, Being capable of all ill ! I pitied thee,...meaning, but wouldst gabble like A thing most brutish, I endow'd thy purposes With words that made them known. But thy vile race, Though thou didst learn, had...

...ii, 351-353), it is Miranda who answers his defence: Abhorred slave Which any print of goodness wilt not take. Being capable of all ill! I pitied thee,...meaning, but wouldst gabble like A thing most brutish, I endow'd thy purposes With words that made them known. (L ii, 353-359) 13 It seems entirely appropriate...

...had peopled else This island with Calibans. MIRANDA: Abhorred slave, Which any print of goodness wilt not take, Being capable of all ill! I pitied thee,...meaning, but wouldst gabble like A thing most brutish, I endow'd thy purposes With words that made them known. But thy vile race, Though thou didst learn, had...

...peopled else This isle with Calibans. MIRANDA Abhorred slave, 350 Which any print of goodness wilt not take, Being capable of all ill ! I pitied thee,...thou didst learn — had that in't which good natures 339 Cursed ... did] F i ; Curs'd be I that I did F2 339 charms spells tant aspect of her nature, in...

...Caliban's nature which no amount of nurture can cure. Abhorred slave. Which any print of goodness wilt not take. Being capable of all ill! I pitied thee,...purposes With words that made them known. But thy vile raceThough thou didst learn — had that in't which good natures Could not abide to be with; therefore...

...civilising European female idealist, Miranda, who is centrally instrumental in this, since it was she who Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour...endowed thy purposes With words that made them known. (354-8) This is a crucial passage, for the way cultural imperialism works is indeed to de-voice the...