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Tuesday 18 October 2011

A new civilization

According to the discussion in class about Oroonoco from Aphra Benn I have been thinking about europeans and slaves, indians and africans and I have remembered a disney film: Pocahontas. M y question is, if the Lion King is a film based in the Shakespeare's play Hamlet, could Pocahontas be based on the arrival of english people to America in the restoration era? Well, I have been looking for some information about the tale of Pocahontas and I have found that this story is based in the XVII century.
Everything starts in 1607. James I is the king of England. English people travel to America to colonize the indians. The indian tribe headed by Pocahontas' father  kidnap John Smith. When they are going to execute him, Pocahontas jumps over him to save his life. This is the way in which indians and europeans start a kind of friendship, but this friendship ends soon because the english people are extending over the country and indians feel threatened.
Smith and some people returns to England and Pocahontas get married with a man called John Rolfe. He has got a tobacco field in Virginia. As many colonizers has left America, this man try to demonstrate that indians can be educated like he has done with Pocahontas.


Wednesday 12 October 2011

Welcome Post

Hello everyone,
This is my first post on my new blog. At first I thought to call it All for love because of John's Dryden's play but finally  I have called it  the way of the world because of William congreve's one. I think this tragedy explains in many different ways how they lived in that period. He explains the society of London ( remember that in the restoration many people move to the cities and London becomes an important place), the characters are more realistic and women take an important place in society.