I Know I Am But What Are You? Cultural Differences in The Tempest, Montaigne’s Essays, and In Defense of the Indians Paper #2 The Tempest, In Defense of the Indians, and Montaigne’s essays each illustrate what happens when two very different worlds collide. As Europe begins to saturate New World soil, the three authors offer their accounts of the dynamic between the European invader and native other. Though each work is unique in its …showed first 75 words of 1292 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1292 total…barbarism whatever is not his own practice" (Of Cannibals, p.58). Without understanding Montaigne’s true meaning, Prospero would wholeheartedly agree. Caliban certainly does not partake in the "practice" of Prospero. Like the natives in de Las Casas and Montaigne’s New World, Caliban has a different appearance and language. However, where Montaigne and de Las Casas are proponents of respecting differences, Shakespeare’s Europeans use those differenc! es to defend robbery and subjugation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**