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is modern society breaking down?

Imagine. Imagine a conversation without listening. Imagine a relationship with no love, where we cannot express emotion if money and power is not obtained, a society that is being manipulated by the government and there is no way out of these rigid walls limiting our freedom.  Don’t you think so? That we are being tied by our legs and we’re not able to spread our wings and be free as a majestic eagle? We must not listen to these malicious politicians because we are affecting ourselves through greed and not being sympathetic to those in need.

In our modern society with its internet, it’s reality TV and it’s advanced technology, there are new problems that we must face that continues to bring down our society.

The greatest of our problems is money due to the fact that we’ve enabled our government in the UK to manipulate our trust in them against us through corruption.Money is dark, it’s dangerous, once its found there’s no way to escape. Throughout history money has lead to greed , murder and conflict. In this modern society with more money than ever, we have seen more greed than ever, more murder than ever and more conflict than ever. Lie and more lies have been told to us by the government. Such as David Cameron announced that they were paying Britain’s debt, this turned out to be a lie. Money leads to people destroying what they have built with their hearts and mind. Families and friendships cannot withstand the destructive power of money. So wake up people, smell the roses, make yourself aware of this danger in our society!

Greed came to the world through money. The devil lies inside each dollar, each pound, each yen,haunting us without us knowing.We have so much money in this world yet we can’t spare a small proportion of it for our brothers?Why not help one another? There are 185,000 homeless people living in the streets hungry, not knowing if somebody’s out there to love them, why not love each other?There has been inequality in this world since the day money was introduced to us, the UK and the United states of America spent £530 Billion on the war in Iraq. Clearly, the rich have money to fight with each other but can’t help the poor dying of starvation. Society has been shattered like broken glass. It is crumbling down.

America was a victim of a catastrophe. When the Twin Towers were destroyed by terrorists, America pledged to fight back. They marched into Iraq, shooting down Saddan Hussein and his troops. The mission was apparently complete, but something caught the eye of the American government, leading them down the road to greed and disaster . The oil hidden far underground has lead to a continuation of the vicious war. America has attacked Iraq for the past 10 years, killing 116,000 civilians. This action happened because we as society weren’t awake to the threat of greed, money and power dominating our minds. This simple action led to 116,000 horrible consequences;Innocent lives were lost. It’s not just in the UK where society is breaking down, its occurring all around the world including America.

British society is crumbling because of the loss of our trust. We’ve been manipulated by our government enslaving us to pay higher taxes. but not to achieve our own goals. I live in the UK, a society in which these power hungry politicians squeeze the juice out of us. That’s right, we’re lead by power hungry machines. We as citizens of the UK fall for their devious and malicious ideas hidden within their deliberately confusing talk of statistics that are only intended to hold us at arms length away from the truth.Our government has allowed incredibly high prices I for rent and house prices, every year it seems that the rent increases weekly price, this has lead people to become homeless all over Britain due to the fact the government’s technique to drain the juice out of us, all our efforts, hard work is being drained out of us like it’s nothing. The government are possessed by money, the more they have the more they want. This has influences us to become possessive and has lead us to turn our backs on the poor. This is why our society is decaying.

Money is the filter of sympathy. The rich and the government laughs at us, they mock us like a mocking bird. Contrastingly there are those who aren’t intimidated by money, who know how not to let money manipulate them, who have money but are self centred in what they believe. Bill Gates, the richest man the planet once announced his will of leaving 90% of his earnings, around 50 billion dollars on to charity after his death and not his children. This is evident that our society still has a chance to survive as Bill Gates is a man with power and with heart to help the poor.

In conclusion to my point, I believe our love for money has taken over us and made us into addicted power hungry machines, that do not respect those who are weaker than us. We have given those with a lower wage a lower status, causing us to be the reason why our society is corrupt.This has caused us to be distant from each other and unsympathetic to the plight of others, even though we were all born on this planet . We should all live in peace and become more reconciled with each other.

It was dark and gloomy as I opened my eyes to get a glance at my surrounding. It was so dark I couldn’t see the ground. It was almost like I was hovering within a black hole where the light was bent and could not be reflected. My mind could not cope with the silence and the darkness. Confusion rose in me.

I took a deep breath, but a strong and aggressive stench that attacked my nostrils.  ”Argh”, I complained.  The smell was horrendously disturbing. It smelt like corroded metal and wet old wood. My instant reaction was to rotate my head to the left side of my shoulder, away from the hideous smell. This ended up not being the solution because the stench was following my nose in the direction I drove it. There was no solution but to accommodate myself to these circumstances. I felt unconscious and limited with my awareness of my surrounding.  I felt light as a feather; and I could not feel the contractions of my arms. I forced movement in my arms and my legs to stretch and release the stress. But  I could not obtain a response from my nerves. I soon was aware that I couldn’t move because I felt friction in my legs and arms once I tried to move. Frustrated,  anxious. Soon the rage of testosterone rose through my body,  becoming aggressive. I tried moving in despair as it was my only option.  Without warning a massive force grew behind my head pulling me backward, It felt like I was losing balance because a force grew behind me as I moved. I soon felt the surface of the ground as my head banged against it and became sore. My legs were numb and I wasn’t able to detect any motion in my body.

”BANG”, the unseen door swung open and a ray of light illuminated my surrounding.  A dark shadow passed in between the source of the light only allowing a proportion of it to enter the door frame. Soon I heard a ”click” just after the bright light was shown inside the room. It was a light switch that was turned on. An immense black man around 35 years of age, with big abdominal muscles and with massive veined muscular arms approached me. A woman and a man followed his steps as if they were stepping in a field of mines. The light that shone upon my eyes interrupted my vision. I had difficulty in coordinating every movement that they took as they approached me. My eyes accommodated to the bright light. Once I obtained sight of the scene, I discovered what was going on. The immense force that had ahold of my body was gravity. I was in a massive room where all types of machinery were kept. I grew discontent in the situation I was in. ”Where is it”, shouted angrily the black man. ”I don’t know what your talking about”, I pleaded for a response. ”Listen, you tell me now or you’re going to get it for sure”. He aggressively replied.”Please! Release me, I don’t know what your talking about, I’m innocent”. I answered petrified. My response seemed futile towards and aggravated the situation. His veins popped viciously increasing size.This was evident that I was driving his patience. He walked 5 metres, I followed him by rotating my head towards the direction he was approaching. I saw him grabbing an object. My field of vision was still fuzzy due to the brightness of the bulb. The image of the man became bigger meaning he was approaching closer to me. Approaching closer to me it became clear that the object was a lethal weapon. It was a baseball bat with thick copper spikes attached to it. My heart rapidly started racing in despair. I could feel my heart in my hand.

”NO NO NO PLEASE”, I wailed loudly. He viciously shouted at the other two callous people. ” hold him”. He lifted the lethal weapon above my head and with full force he hit me with on my cranium.  Blood rushed down my overlapping my tears.  But at a sudden moment I felt no pain. Through my vision white light illuminated and at that present moment I could see my past fading away into the distance, I lost consciousness of all my senses, I could feel like I disconnected myself from my body.I could see my spirit being lifted up and could not feel the force pulling me down onto the ground. I knew it was my end as I lost the sense of my heartbeat pounding against my chest.

Dear Samantha Taylor,

I am composing this letter to give my own point of view suggesting why teenagers should not be doubted upon social media, due to the fact that this article is implying that teenagers are intoxicated with certain social media sites such as facebook, and how social media might affect teenagers social life.I felt it was important to write this letter because I agree with your statement that all of these negative portrayals that people like John Henley imply about teenager such as young people post information about themselves online that petrifies their elders, and don’t care about their privacy. I comprehend that newspapers only comment on a small proportion of incidents that have occurred but claim that it is how all teenagers behave online.

Most people from older generations believe that social media site are what is preventing teenagers from commencing meaningful relationship. In your report, Jonathan franzen stated that social media sites make it harder for us teenagers to distinguish between the relationships we harbour in the real world and in the cyber world. Jonathan Franzen is trying to emphasise that social media sites such as Facebook and Instagram have kept teenagers from the reality of our natural interaction without having a screen in between us. But also that teenagers might get mixed into relationships with no connectivity in terms of emotions because of a screen being in between them. I totally disagree with Jonathan Franzen’s point because I see the total opposite of what he’s implying.I believe that social media sites have actually enabled not just teenagers, but people of all ages to communicate with certain siblings who are distant from each other, maybe living in another country to reunite as a family by staying in contact. Jonathan Franzen also expresses his frustration that younger generations who are stuck on social media.’’countless hours glued to Facebook’’ ,he phrases that us teenagers are possessed. I totally disagree with Jonathan Franzen. Digital technology has been introduced to younger generations, they are completely innocent and those who do stick themselves to computer screens have not been educated in which the blame is carried towards their parents who do not know how to control and educate their children about what is right and what is wrong.

People in older generations believe that digital technology has slowed the development of younger generations to craft themselves into professionals and enable them mature into adults. American comedian Louis CK stated that he disagreed with the fact of giving his daughters mobile phones because that might not ‘’develop empathy’’. I disagree with his statement because I proclaim that us being introduced digital technology have allowed us to  obtain news and events that have happened around the world, such as in Africa people dying due to the lack of water and resources they had that was causing this catastrophe. This encounter enabled us to create charities such as UCIF , an  online  charity where we could donate money and help out people in Africa dying of thirst and hunger. In addition to my point, Louis CK won’t be able to maintain communication with his daughters if they are not given some type of digital where they could communicate.

In conclusion, Samantha is totally correct, teenagers are being victimised eventhough they don’t have the blame.The fact is that digital technology had changed our world, we have been enabled  to communicate, evidently now we’re able to communicate to certain siblings or family members abroad using digital technology. And also to keep ourselves notified of our children being safe when going out with friends. And those to blame are those in the older generations that have introduced us to digital technology have the blame for those who really have been possessed by digital technology.  This

Sincerely Juan Paredes

Juan Paredes

Imagine. Imagine a conversation without listening. Imagine a relationship with with no love, in which our society we cannot express emotion if money and power is not obtained. A society that is being manipulated by the government and there is no way out of these rigid walls limiting our freedom.  Don’t you think so? That we are being tied by our legs and we’re not able to spread our wings and be free as a majestic eagle? We must not listen to these malicious politicians because we are affecting ourselves through greed and not being sympathetic for those in need.

In our modern society with its internet, it’s reality TV and it’s advanced technology, there are new problems that we must face.

The greatest of our problems is money due to the fact that we’ve enabled our government in the UK to manipulate our trust in them against us through corruption. Money is dark, it’s dangerous. Once its found there’s no way to escape. Throughout history money has lead to greed , murder and conflict. In this modern society with more money than ever, we have seen more greed than ever, more murder than ever and more conflict than ever. Money leads to people destroying what they have built with their hearts and mind. Families and friendships cannot withstand the destructive power of money.So wake up people, smell the roses and make yourself aware of this danger in modern society!

Greed came to the world through money. The devil lies inside each dollar, each pound, each yen,haunting us without us knowing.We have so much money in this world, yet we can’t spare a small proportion of it to our brothers?Why not help one another? There are 185,000 homeless people living in the streets hungry, not knowing if somebody’s out there to love them. Why not love each other?There has been inequality in this world since the day money was introduced to us. The UK and the United states of America spent £530 Billion on the war in Iraq. Clearly, the rich have money to fight with each other, but can’t help the poor dying of starvation. Modern society has been shattered like broken glass, there is no such thing as togetherness anymore.

America was a victim of a catastrophe. When the Twin Towers destroyed by terrorists, America pledged to fight back. They marched into Iraq, shooting down Osama Bin Laden and his troops. The mission was apparently complete, but something caught the eye of the American government, leading them down the road to greed and disaster . The oil hidden far underground has lead to a continuation of the vicious war. America has attacked Iraq for the past 10 years, killing 116,000 civilians. This action happened because we as society weren’t awake to the threat of greed, money and power dominated our mind. This simple action led to 116,000 horrible consequences;Innocent lives were lost.

British society is crumbling because of the loss of our trust. We have been manipulated by our government enslaving us to pay higher taxes. But not to achieve our own goals. I live in the UK, a society in which these power hungry politicians squeeze the juice out of us. That’s right, we’re lead by power hungry machines. We as citizens of the UK fall for their devious and malicious ideas hidden within their deliberately confusing talk of statistics that are only intended to hold us arms length away from the truth.Our government has allowed incredibly high prices for rent and house prices. Every year it seems that the rent increases weekly price, this has lead people to become homeless all over Britain due to the fact the government’s technique to drain the juice out of us. All our efforts, hard work being drained out like it’s nothing. The government are savages of money. They’re possessed by money. The more they have the more they want.

Money is the filter of sympathy, the rich and the government laughs at us. They mock us like a mocking bird. Contrastingly there are those who aren’t intimidated by money. Who know how not to let money manipulate them. who have money but are self centred in what they believe. Bill Gates the richest man the planet once announced his will of leaving 90% of his earnings of 50 billion dollars on to charity after his death and not his children. This is evident that our society still has a chance to survive as Bill Gates is a man with power and with heart to help the poor.

In conclusion, our love for money has taken over ourselves and made us into addicted power hungry machines that do not respect those who are weaker or lack the freedom to be heard. That have been positioned lower in the hierarchy meaning they also had a lower status. But also have been limited to live and feel making us soulos humans.the incapability to live and express on an Earth that we were born in, on aN Earth that we were all born on. We are birds that have been tied by our feet and we try to be free and fly up into the sky but as we are tied by our feet, and have us still on the ground.

Dear Samantha Taylor,

I am composing this letter to give my own point point of view suggesting why teenagers should not be doubted upon social media due to the fact that this article is implying that teenagers are intoxicated with certain social media sites like Facebook, and how it might have effect on their social.

I felt it was important to write this letter because I agree with your statement that all of these negative portrayals that people like John Henley imply about teenager, such as ‘’young people post information about themselves online that horrifies their elders’’. And also don’t care about their privacy. I understand that newspapers only comment on a small proportion of incidents that have occurred but claim that it is how all teenagers behave online.

The article written by Samantha Taylor implies that the ”digital age is making teenagers unable to form uniquely shallow and the kids are unable to form meaningful relationships”. I strongly disagree with this statement because digital technology has enabled teenagers, but also including people from older generations to remain in contact with siblings or simply people with a close relationship to stay in contact. You might ask yourself, why would I defend these poor teenagers? Well because this article is discriminating teenagers. Teenagers are being targeted by this article, eventhough people from older generations have influenced them into being anti-social. This anti-social attitude of segregation away from a society that may cause harm on a teenager’s development as a person. Digital technology was created to enable people to maintain communication.  However, teenagers  have taken advantage of digital technology and have used it to access inappropriate things such pornography. This is due to older generations introducing this type of technology to younger generations as part of their nurture, causing them them to develop it as a type of need and something they have to carry through their life for communication.

I detest the fact that this article keeps implying that teenagers have ‘enslaved’ themselves to this digital technology by someone who is from an older generations and who are being hypocritical.  The older generations commenced this such behaviour when they developed this technology, which was evolved this idea into a nightmare. So dear Samantha Taylor, please comprehend that this idea of teenagers enslaving themselves is not something that corresponds to them, having effect on their social life. This digital technology was a disease created by man to spread out and infect people, then being transmitted down the upcoming generations. This was introduced as part of their nature and affected their capability to socialise.

Jonathan Frazen refers to the idea that social media sites are making hard to distinguish meaningful relationships and that social media sites such as Facebook and Instagram stop teenagers distinguishing the reality of our nature of face to face conversations. But also that teenagers might get mixed into relationships with no connectivity in terms of emotions because of a screen being in between them. I totally disagree with Jonathan Franzen’s point because I see the total opposite of what he’s implying.I believe that social media site have actually enabled not just teenagers, but people of all ages to communicate with certain siblings who as distant from each other. Even those who are probably living in another country to reunite contact. Jonathan Franzen also expresses his frustration younger generations who are stuck on social media.

Teenagers are not screen – enslaved social inadequates! Digital technology enriches the lives of the younger generations because it improves the quality of their lives. They are able to stay in contact with certain family members abroad and also to stay updated with events that have occurred in our world. Digital technology is a powerful tool that has enabled us to be interconnected with one another.

Yours sincerely,

Juan Paredes

In this essay I am exploring power and control through language structure and characterization in Frankenstein written by Mary Shelley and The Tempest written by Shakespeare.  Power is the ability and capability to do something and can be placed as use to control or take advantage of someone or a certain event. Mary Shelley was inspired to write this Gothic novel due to a night of German ghost stories were being told by Lord Byron, her husband and friends. Lord Byron’s proposal of the ghost stories was the spark of the commencement of Shelley’s imagination for the Gothic novel. This event occurred through a night of thunderstorms that was continuous for days and lead them to stay in the house. Mary Shelley at the time desired to write a novel ‘ which would speak to the mysterious fears of nature and awaken a thrilling horror’. she wrote Frankenstein with a theme of the ‘Romantic movement’ which was a strong overflow of strong and powerful of emotion, power and control was presented through the romantic movement in Frankenstein, also through  the main character ‘Victor Frankenstein’ who was suffering a depression. He visited the Switz Alps called ‘Mont BLanc’. This encounter was where he recuperated and gained control due to the magnificent serenity and the sublimity he experienced through this encounter with nature. Mary Shelley intended to introduce The Romantic movement to emphasize what nature can cause sublimity to be used as a therapy for those who suffer from depression.

However in the 17th century around the year 1609 the white Europeans who travelled sailed towards the Americas, there were 500 colonists on board. Suddenly they had a major shipwreck which changed the course of their sailing. The change of direction took them to one of the Islands in the Bermuda’s due the great disaster struck from an immense storm. This Island was seen as the Devil’s Island. This was mentioned by Ariel in the script, when telling Prospero what she has done to the ship. There was such thing as the old world and the new world back in the 17th century. The old world seen a civilization that had gone through the industrial revolution, the old world had made a lot of discoveries. The old world was certain countries in Europe that were claimed to be civilized. By being civilized is seen as going through a stage of development considered to be more advanced, in this case the old world had gone through the industrial revolution. The new world was a metaphor given to the Americas, in terms of the new world they had not gone through a stage of development such as the industrial revolution. This was due to the fact that the Americas were full of natives. This takes it into conclusion that the old world desired to colonize the old world as they had a lot of riches, but also to enable them to go through the stage of development. Shakespeare used the old world and the new world and presented them Prospero and Caliban. Shakespeare presented the old world through Prospero as he was a white European from Milan that was part of course due to an immense storm and caused him and his daughter to end up in one of the islands of the Bermuda. Caliban was a seen as the new world as he was a native uncivilized unlike Prospero.

In chapter 2 of Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein was exposed to a scene of terrific bright lights that commenced the spark of his curiosity towards science. It was known as the lightening scene.” The thunder burst at once with frightful loudness from various quarters of the heaven. I remained, while the storm lasted, watching it progress which curiosity and delight”. This quote activated Victor Frankenstein’s curiosity, this encounter with the scene had him questioning himself about science. The lightning scene took control over Frankenstein to proceed him into the enriching of knowledge. Enriching himself with knowledge enabled him to gain power as he gained knowledge that certain people weren’t aware of. ” I never beheld anything utterly destroyed”, he describe the oak tree as ‘utterly destroyed’, by him using this exaggeration of speech he has emphasized his astonishing encounter with the source of the nature that is so destructive, this was a scene that he was had never beheld a witness with this supernatural experience. Mary Shelley is trying to say about how power and control that Mother Nature obtains a source power that no human being could obtain, Victor’s encounter with the lightning caused him to envy nature’s power and lead him to seek and discover how to obtain it so that he could use it to create and take away life. Mary Shelley was inspired to write the lightening scene, she wanted to write a novel ‘which would speak for the mysterious fear of our nature and awaken a thrilling horror- one to make the reader dread to look around”.

In the tempest Prospero Miranda’s father had enslaved Caliban due to the fact that Caliban attempted to rape Prospero’s daughter. Prospero was infuriated to witness this happening to his daughter even though Prospero and Caliban were equal since Caliban taught him how to survive in the remote island they ended up in, she as exchange taught him how to speak in a very eloquent form of language. Caliban broke the inequality between him and Prospero. When he attempted to rape his daughter.”I mine own cell, till thou didst seek to violate the honour of my child’ ‘Prospero emphasized here anger and Caliban’s action as ‘violation’ of their relationship and her ‘honour’ by attempting to rape his daughter. Propero’s anger led him to use his power within his magic and her books to enslave Caliban, as he stands higher status due to how civilized he is, he easily took power with his magic controlling Caliban and his island, this is how power and control was present in Act 1 Scene 2 he grew frustration to know that he attempted to make Caliban into a civilized human being, From being a native who has not been through the industrial revolution to one who has been through the industrial revolution. The scene the act 1 scene is link with the social historical context in the 7th century the white Europeans sailed to the America where most of the world richest were found. As they got there they encountered that there was a lot of native that weren’t yet civilized as they hadn’t gone through the industrial revolution. The white Europeans colonized parts of the Americas and brought up the Law for those who try dishonour the queen will be enslaved or hung.

In act 1 scene 2 Caliban experiences fear and terror as spirits haunt him down at night. ‘‘Sometimes like apes that mow and chatter and after bite me”. At night the spirits appear as apes which ‘mow’ at him, mean the ape like spirits try to cut his up by biting him. The spirits ‘chatter’ at him meaning the spirits whisper in his ear. These spirits are been present through Ariel who Prospero used his power by using magic to cause Caliban to become scare by using fear, terror and torture to control Caliban and get what he wants .Shakespeare is portraying power through Prospero’s demand to Ariel, but also Shakespeare has shown it through Ariel as it has the physical power to transform into a ghostly spirit that has the characteristics of ‘ape’ trying to bite him.

In chapter 4 in the Frankenstein book Victor Frankenstein penetrated deep into science, his obsession drove him to penetrate deep into the science of anatomy. He wanted to know how living things lived and died.” I became acquainted with the science of anatomy: but this was not sufficient; I must also observe the natural decay and corruption of the human body”. By Victor Frankenstein emphasizing the insufficiency of the knowledge he acquainted was not enough to reach his satisfaction of knowledge .Mary Shelly is suggesting that by Victor’s desire and obsession is presented control, Mary Shelley has expressed control through his obsession that was taking control over him. This led him to lose communication with his step sister and his father because his obsession has had him so controlled that it has distracted him from what was much more important. His aim was to make a new race of creature. He knew what he had to do to acquire the knowledge that would enable him to have the power and for him to be successful in commencement a whole new life. Mary Shelley was inspired to write this scene as she uses Galvanism (the use of lightning) to commence the creatures life in Frankenstein. Galvanism was the theory that the use of an electrical current sent through a body could bring a dead body back to life, this theory was present in the mid-17th century. Doctor Aldini was a scientist to take this theory into practical where his sent a current through a dead body and cause its leg to twitch and its eye to open. This source of power in the Aldini experiment was only used as knowledge of power that could also be used to control the commencement of life and death.

In chapter 9 was where Frankenstein had made his journey to the Switz Alps presented as ‘Mont Blanc’. His journey to the Switz Alps was to seek recuperation. His exploration and interaction of the scenes of the Switz Alps enabled him to experience the sublimity of it which was the intense emotions that overcome any other mental state due to its intensity. ‘‘These sublime and magnificent scenes afforded me the greatest consolations that I was capable of receiving”.  The word ‘ magnificent’ in terms of the quote enables the reader to comprehend that what he was seeing through his eyes was a majestic and beautiful panoramic view enabled him to recuperate. Mary Shelley is trying to say that the sublimity of nature had the power to help people recuperate from a depression and other types of mental illness, but also she mentions that the sublimity enables people to regain control of their emotions and metal state. The word ‘consolation’ used in the text is form of recuperation for Victor. ‘Consolation’ is a certain experience that enables sadness or depression to fade away. Mary Shelley was inspired to write about ‘The Romantic Movement'(which was the beauty of Mother Nature that enabled people to experience the sublime) in her work. She portrays the Romantic Movement in this chapter by portraying its power through the sublimity and how it enabled Victor to recuperate.

In Act 2 Scene 2 in The Tempest was where Trinculo encountered Caliban in the middle of a storm,” A fish; a very ancient and fish like smell” This quote helps the reader understand how Caliban was presented to Trinculo in his encounter with it. Caliban was seen as a fish. Also Stephano encounters Trinculo and Stephano. Trinculo wanted to take him back to England and sell him to get money.” These be fine things, an if they be no sprites. That’s a brave god, bear celestial liquor. I will kneel to him”. Caliban had first tried liquor and he had described it as ‘celestial’, celestial is a word that has a definition as something observed in Astronomy out in space, therefore emphasizing that the liquor was something unearthly to Caliban as it was his first try of it. This led him to admire the presence of the marvellous and unearthly liquor and kneeling down to Stephano offer a place as his God. Shakespeare is trying to suggest that the present of the liquor was presented as power, Stephano used the Liquor to control Caliban to show them around the island. The social historical context of the scene was that the old world had invented liquor, once the new world came in contact with liquor it was unearthly.

In Frankenstein I have learned that this novel was written from a Gothic background. Mary Shelley used abusive language through a creature to express power and control. In The Tempest power and control is shown through magic and how civilized the characters are.