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Do you really mean this? Aside from being a gross oversimplification,
it strikes us as inaccurate. I don't recall Jiminy ever leading the
bad guys into a field of horse piss, nor was he enslaved to Pinnochio.
Ariel deliberately misleads Caliban, Stephano and Trinculo, and is
totally at Prospero's mercy. His only morality lies in his own self-
interest; hardly Prospero's conscience telling him right from wrong.Wouldn't it be more accurate (although still an over-simplification)
to say that Ariel represents air to Caliban's earth? Or that he is
the willing slave as opposed to the defiant slave (again Caliban?)
You could even think of him as the native who lets himself be used
and exploited in opposition to the one who stands his ground. In no
case, however, can Ariel be discussed with no references to Caliban.Posted by the fun girls on May 31, 1997 at 13:59:40
In Reply to "Ariel's purpose" posted by Melissa on May 12, 1997 at 19:55:17
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