What underlying theme may be suggested when Shakespeare’s Caliban speaks these lines to Prospero in The Tempest? “You taught me language; and my proft on’t Is, I know how to curse: the red plague rid you For learning me your language!”

a) the consequences to native populations of English colonization
b) the natural depravity of uncivilized “cannibals”
c) the inevitable conflicts between educated and uneducated classes
d) the dangers of English feudal society


Answer: a

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